Word: impactful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Struggling for democratic decision-making within the University can affect important interest group issues like discrimination and minority hiring, but it can also have an impact on the concerns of even the most apolitical undergraduate--basic issues like the academic calendar, the number of shuttle buses and the mandatory full meal plan. Shouldn't the community itself--the students, faculty and staff who live and work at Harvard--make decisions about such things...
Enter Jeremy Rifkin, who with several allies filed suit in a federal court, charging that NIH, in granting its approval, had failed to prepare environmental-impact statements. At hearings conducted by Federal Judge John Sirica, Rifkin and a few scientists who supported his view pointed to the troubles caused in the U.S. by the introduction of foreign organisms...
...matter what Citystep does in the future, Contreucci praises the program's current efforts to enhancing Cambridge students' education. "It's a very popular program which has made a tremendous impact...
...those at previous performances in New York, Philadelphia, and Providence who spoke as much Greek as Korean appeared to have no difficulty relating to the contradictions depicted: modern "progress" in Third World countries like South Korea under Western captialism's political and economic shadow. The overt questioning of the impact of continuing American influence in the form of U.S. military troops and the recent build-up of nuclear arms is not simply rhetoric being played out on stage, but a form of experimenting that asks how far one can get away with extending the boundaries...
...years of work, the 18-member commission released a somber report warning that organized criminals have made inroads into virtually every major U.S. industry. They drain the nation's economy through tax evasion and the higher prices caused by their involvement in legitimate business, the commission concluded. The impact could be an extra .3% in consumer prices this year. Altogether, organized crime may take in as much as $106 billion in 1986 and cost a typical American at least...