Word: impression
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...cuts leave Britons with precious little extra change in their pockets. Tinkering with income taxes-raising certain thresholds and allowances-will save some administrative costs and put only one or two additional pounds into the hands of the average family of four. That is not likely to impress most people, who flocked to pubs last week to drink up before the new taxes went into effect, and laid in cases of Scotch and gin to beat the $1.10 increase on each bottle...
...does not wring confessions out of witnesses or win acquittals for innocent clients. He never affects tailored suits or dour expressions. There is no need for him to impress his clients. The people who come for help are usually guilty as charged. What they need is not style, but help. And that is exactly what they get from Jeremiah Francis Kennedy, whose wife refers to him as "the classiest sleazy criminal lawyer in Boston...
...same time, this display of fiscal firmness is failing to impress its intended audience. The program's goal is to prove to the business world that Carter is man enough to grit his teeth and make the helpless bite the bullet--thereby reversing self-fulfilling inflationary expectations. But the consensus on Wall Street is that not enough old people will freeze, too few children will go hungry and, in short, stricter discipline is necessary...
...properly stagy. His adolescent self-consciousness comes across beautifully: when he quotes Omar Khayyam, we can feel his pride at knowing a poem by heart. Fitzpatrick manages Richard's tricky character development well. He really does change; Richard quotes poetry, by the end of the play, not to impress anyone, but because poetry expresses his thoughts better than anything else...
...time the paid flunky of a vicious fascist government which engages in torture, murder even outside its own borders, and wholesale economic immiseration of a large fraction of the people under its control. Harberger's disingenuous attempt to distinguish between the government of Chile and government-owned corporations may impress the legal mind, but it strikes most of us as a distinction without a difference. The fact, which cannot be evaded by childish sophistries, is that Harberger directly and through his students and disciples is a principal architect of Chile's oppressive economic program. In the New York Times...