Word: impactful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...demand some specific redress, they will realize that the problem is much larger. The action they seek must ultimately not only right some immediate wrong, but also strengthen students' rights and freedoms within the University. Without something to unify it, all student action will have only fleeting, momentary impact. The community myth--which denies that any student interest or identification does exist--must be destroyed...
Says Sadik: "Both the magazine covers and our own portraits show people who have had the strongest impact on American life. Both, in other words, tell history-and that's where they can meet." Sa dik also believes that TIME's covers are contributing to a revival of portraiture. "In the first decade of the 20th century, art went abstract, and representational portraiture became declasse," he explains...
Late last year, Carter tried to aid California producers by cutting the entitlements obligation on their oil by $1.74. But this had little impact, and political pressures would probably prevent this inefficient program from being ended...
...more constricting form of the short story. Airships proves Hannah an exception. Though a few of the 20 pieces included here fall flat, most are artfully rounded-off vignettes jumping with humor and menace. And the stories bounce off and echo one another, giving the book an impact greater than the sum of its parts...
...broader scale, the federal government should cease all involvement in the Mexican government's herbicide war on the nation's marijuana fields. The U.S. State Department has promised to produce an environmental impact statement detailing the effects of Mexico's "drug-eradication" program on the United States; such token action remains an insufficient response to a growing problem affecting millions of marijuana users in this country. The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) filed a lawsuit last March 13 seeking an injunction to halt the herbicide spraying program pending the publication of the environmental impact statement...