Word: impactful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...terms of the disease's emotional and social dimensions, students and administrators alike say the impact of AIDS on this campus clearly exceeds these four isolated cases...
Sanks says he is particularly concerned about the impact of AIDS on "a lot of gay people who have not yet come out of the closet." Other campus leaders concur with Sanks, citing a reluctance in some undergraduates to take steps toward becoming "openly gay" because of the AIDS stereotype...
...Providence and two more in Dallas, one of which opened last week. His bawdy, confrontational work at Trinity got him fired, temporarily, in the mid-'70s but won a special Tony Award in 1981 and just keeps rolling along. At Dallas, where in three seasons his avant- garde impact on a stodgy company has cost more than a third of the subscribers, his work is just beginning...
...good news is the plunge in oil prices. Only last November crude was selling for more than $30 per bbl., but by last week it had dropped to about $12. Because oil price declines can take 40 to 90 days to work their way through to the pump, the impact of lower-cost crude is just beginning to be felt. Some experts are predicting 60 cents gas for the summer, which may tempt a lot of people to polish up the old T-Bird and have some...
Even so, the Reagan Administration can claim some victories, notably in starting to control the growth of trafficking in the cocaine corridor of Florida and the Caribbean. "We are having a major impact on the supply side," declares John Lawn, chief of the federal Drug Enforcement Administration. The South Florida Task Force, launched by President Reagan in March 1982 and headed by Vice President Bush, has brought more personnel and high-tech gear to the task. AWACS-type aircraft and three tethered balloons --soon to be eight--provide radar to help authorities keep track of nearly every plane and ship...