Word: impactful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Teaching is a really good way to know you have made an impact on a certain amount of people. It's invigorating. There's always the hope that you can inspire [high school students...
...easy to displace us as the Americans think," notes a top adviser to West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl. "German products still appeal at these prices." M.I.T. Economist Paul Krugman believes it will take at least a year for the drop in the dollar to % have "a significant impact" on the trade balance. That view is shared by Rimmer de Vries, chief international economist for Morgan Guaranty Trust, who expects only a modest decline in the trade gap this year...
...civilization was tapped out, it seemed to him. Sweat and serendipity were anachronisms; the future looked to be a matter of machines and bureaucracy. "The individual is losing significance," Mies wrote in 1924. "His destiny is no longer what interests us." And yet has any individual had a greater impact on architecture, ever, than Mies...
...lines of the agency's organizational table and headed by McMahon, who was a top CIA executive during the Carter Administration. The staff keeps its own list of what it judges to be the ten most important issues in the world, ranging from Soviet foreign policy to the impact of declining oil prices, and pesters the CIA with an average of two requests a week for highly detailed analyses of those issues. To many in the CIA, all this looks like an attempt to make Durenberger rather than Casey the effective head of the agency; the two are barely...
Sorenson says he did not think that the incident at Berkeley would affect Skocpol's ability to function at Harvard. "I don't think it will have any impact on her relationships with colleagues here," he says...