Word: impactful
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Raised in Darien, Conn., Croll earned an engineering degree from Cornell University in 1970 and a Harvard M.B.A. in 1973. His first job was with the Bank of Boston, but he left after three years to join TA, where he felt he could "have an impact." Now Croll, who is married with one child, works ten- and twelve-hour days and spends one of every four weeks on the road, a pace that he calls "deliberate." A fervent advocate of free enterprise, Croll believes that "most of the job creation in this country is coming from small growth companies. That...
Katz led "The Marshall Plan and After," a panel discussion by five Harvard experts in economics and political science on the impact of aid programs in East Asia, South America and Europe...
...Computers are having an impact on what we think are minds are about," he said...
...with some justice, that just the opposite has happened. News and information fill many more hours of the day than when Murrow was active, and more outlets are competing for stories. Lightweight cameras and satellites have enabled television to provide immediate hookups around the world. Broadcast journalism's collective impact on the civil rights movement, Viet Nam and Watergate more than matched Murrow's exposure of the excesses of Senator Joseph McCarthy. Moreover, Murrow's work for CBS was not without flaw. His intonations and gestures were often stagy, his language orotund, his judgments pious. He squandered...
...found he had an enthusiast in the Minister of Education, Jose Vasconcelos, who invited him back to Mexico to take part in a huge program of public painting. In Mexico and Russia, unlike most of the early 20th century world, a fresco could still be counted on for political impact. Mexico had a huge illiterate population, used to learning doctrine by looking at images. Painting had little or no competition from other media. It could be as direct a form of social speech as it had once been in the city-states of the Renaissance. Characteristically, Rivera mythologized the impact...