Word: impactful
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Some people would clearly prefer not to talk about poison at all. Sex educators face a powerful array of detractors and doubters: Fundamentalist and Roman Catholic leaders, antiabortionists, opponents of the gay lobby, psychologists worrying about the impact of AIDS messages on the young, blacks who consider sex education racist, and even a few capitalists who think that school clinics offering birth-control information should be turned over to private enterprise...
After studying 3,600 students at six high schools in Indiana, Texas and Mississippi, the Center for Population Options found little discernible impact. "Formal sex education appears to have no consistent effect on the subsequent probability that a teenager will begin to have intercourse, neither postponing it nor hastening it," said Douglas Kirby, the head researcher. "Typically, students who take sex-education courses report more tolerant attitudes toward the sexual behavior of others but little change in the values that govern their own personal behavior...
...more locations than at any time in decades. In myriad shapes, sizes and colors, price tagged for all pocketbooks, in a glittering, growing, chromium-plated cavalcade seemingly without end, they continue to cruise into U.S. showrooms and, with slightly less frequency, back onto the streets of America. Under the impact of that four-wheeled flood, the $230 billion-a-year U.S. auto marketplace is being pushed, pulled and pummeled into new forms and shapes as one of the most diverse, sophisticated and, above all, brutally competitive selling arenas in the world...
...list of Games which had an impact on the Ivy title is almost as long as the list of Games...
...normal years, The Game is also important forits impact on the teams' final records. When yournew-found Yale drinking buddy brags that his teamwon The Game, you can at least say, "Well, Harvardhad a better record overall...