Word: impactful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...August 17, 1989, did I voluntarily submit to an entire hour of low-impact aerobics...
...aerobics experience was so traumatizing that I cannot believe a respected educational institution such as Harvard offers "low-impact" classes. Even more mind-boggling is that these classes are filled, and some people are disappointed they cannot get a place in them...
...some cases, the casinos' impact on the lives of Atlantic City residents has been direct and enormous. Redenia Gilliam-Mosee, 41, is vice president of a casino in a city where she once worked as a chambermaid. She had been moving up and away from her childhood in the Inlet, earning a Ph.D. in urban planning at Rutgers University, when Bally's Park Place Casino tapped her for the job. Now she has transformed the row house where she grew up into a modern testament to her faith in the neighborhood. Her picture hangs inside Dave's Groceries nearby...
Prodded by rising public anxiety, Congress and federal regulators have vowed to examine the impact of takeovers on aircraft upkeep. Says California Democrat Norman Mineta, a member of the House Aviation Subcommittee: "No one should ever be put in the position of boarding an aircraft and having to worry if the plane is safe...
...reason for the picture's impact is its straight-ahead melodramatic structure. At its simplest level the movie functions as a well-constructed mystery story. A black man, a gardener named Gordon Ngubene (Winston Ntshona), comes to his employer, Ben du Toit (Donald Sutherland), asking him to help find his son. The boy was taken into police custody during the Soweto protests of 1976 and has disappeared. Du Toit, a calm and rational man, believes this is surely just a bureaucratic muddle that can be easily ameliorated by a solid citizen's firm but polite intervention...