Word: impactful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...result of the program's impact, parents from the Ukrainian community in the United States and Canada, which numbers about 1 million in both nations, have sent many of their children to the Institute to become culturally educated. Hanchuk and Lechman are the third members in their family to attend...
...Republican Governor's prowess with computers has become legendary in New Hampshire. When a party worker complained that he was having trouble with his mass mailing program, Sununu spent a few minutes at his keyboard and solved the problem. Reviewing an environmental group's study of the impact of a new dam, Sununu zeroed in on a questionable variable in the calculations and set the record straight. After one of the Governor's eight children complained about a broken keyboard on his own home computer, Sununu scoured around for a replacement part and fixed it himself...
...Horst Stormer, referring to the Murray Hill branch, where a force of 3,200 does much of Bell's basic research. "This is like a university with a faculty of 500 physicists. If all of us took off and went to different universities, we wouldn't have the same impact." But clumped together, like uranium fuel rods in a reactor, the physicists and other Murray Hillers form what Physicist Douglas Osheroff calls a "critical mass...
...Revere Beach outside Boston or the Galleria mall in the San Fernando Valley; from the work clothes of soldiers and astronauts; from the wardrobe tricks of rock stars and artists at gallery openings. Much of what is best in American fashion--and almost all of what has had an impact--is not identifiable by designer. It comes from attitude as much as from a closet, and no one, not even Ralph Lauren, has ever figured out how to sew a label onto spirit...
Like any other local paper, the Star chronicles the quotidian, printing births and deaths, the names of patients discharged from the hospital, the details of arrests and fires. But the Star also searches for the significance behind the news, interpreting a freshly passed state law or the impact of a zoning-board decision. The paper began a series in January called "County at the Crossroads," which explores the bright and dark sides of Spotsylvania's growth; one story described how a draft budget submitted to the board of supervisors could more than double real estate taxes. The Star has also...