Word: impactful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...imagined that they could do what Kubrick couldn't: influence the course of the arms race. Fearlessly armed with the facts and logical arguments, but rarely a smidgen of dramatic or narrative strength they can call their own, the anti-nuclear advocates carry on despite 20 years of null impact on American or Soviet policy. It's ironic that until very recently, both this nation's nuclear strategists and their foes still relied on vintage 60's ideas, one set from the Rand Corporation and the other from Columbia pictures...
INTELLECTUALS--AND THIS category includes all creative types--are naturally predisposed to believe in the power of ideas, particularly their own, so the tendency to overrate their impact is not surprising. And nuclear war is the ideal intellectual stomping ground to let loose pent-up speculative urges. It's a problem of literally earth-shattering import, it's endlessly debatable, and best of all it's completely hypothetical. No one every fought and nuclear war, or even came all that close to fighting one, so experts can only guess and guess again about the issue. And once you've mastered...
Named "The Aftermath of Suicide: Impact and Response," the symposium, which was held in the Lafayette Hotel in Boston, focused on the psychological chain of events following a suicide...
However, the two full page ads that haveappeared in the Des Moines Register in the lastweek have definitely had an impact on Iowans, saidThomas A. Fogerty of the Register. "Dukakis hasbroken out of the pack in making himself known,"he said. Neither of the ads were officiallysanctioned by Dukakis...
...group is trying to gather data on the impact of war on civilian populations in four Nicaraguan villages. The group members are hoping to go "door-to-door" and interview mothers with at least one child under six years old about health and sanitation conditions in the low intensity war zones of Nicaragua, according to Terri L. Goldberg, an SPH student and spokesman for the group...