Word: impactful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Reagan Administration, the authors dryly conclude, "chose to pursue a strategy of maximum public impact" by rushing to judgment without sound scientific analysis. Despite the damning article, the Administration still stands by the accusation...
...procedure that TIME has increasingly used as part of its coverage of late-breaking news around the world, each picture was first converted into millions of computer digits, and that information was stored on tape. Then it was beamed via satellite to the TIME Impact (for Image Processing and Color Transmission) Center in New York City. There Seth Zeitlin, one of six systems managers, received the data on tape and entered the information into TIME's computer system. Finally a high-resolution picture was printed, and Richer could see the photo that Moyer and Kim had selected less than...
...Hollywood's new romantic leading man. With his tall, rangy good looks and cool American strength, Costner, 32, is an old-fashioned movie hero. Like such stars as Gary Cooper, Clark Gable and Jimmy Stewart, he can fill the screen with what Director Billy Wilder has called "flesh impact...
...audiences and modify their content accordingly, lengthening some scenes while cutting others short if they evoke yawns. What if the newspapers that reach subscribers' homes every morning could be edited with each particular reader in mind -- filled with stories selected because they affected his neighborhood, or had an impact on his personal business interests, or mentioned his friends and associates...
...most intricate deals and such matters as his stormy relationship with Sam Rayburn," says Caro. "Then, at a crucial moment, just when you want to know what someone is thinking, you'll run into a telegram or note saying 'Phone me tonight.' That's when you feel the impact of the telephone right in your gut." In researching L.B.J.'s role in the passage of the 1957 Civil Rights Bill, Caro says he has been reduced to deciphering scrawls at the bottom of telephone-message slips...