Word: impactful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...teammates agree, "He definitely had a good year. Co-Captain Brian Groukau said, "He's phenomenal. By the end of his four years he'll have made quite an impact on Harvard swimming. He's super team player, and had a lot of us looking at his starts earlier in the season. I really have the utmost confidence he'll be one of the best in the world once he adjusts to Harvard swimming...
...figure of the nanny looms large in history. "My nurse was my confidante," wrote a wistful Winston Churchill of his beloved Mrs. Everest. American aristocrats such as Franklin Roosevelt also had treasured nannies, but will the new nanny to the upper middle class have a similar impact? That will take a generation to discover. Meanwhile, they are charting a new egalitarian course between the pantry and the parlor. Says Bunge: "They're not servants and they're not new sisters. What are they? That's what the nannies have to figure out." Mary Poppins may be an outdated stereotype...
...delivering a "potentially crippling blow to Miranda and . . . the rights of persons accused of crime." Georgetown Law Professor William Greenhalgh sympathized with the dissenters, noting that despite O'Connor's bright-line endorsement, "exceptions like this tend to dim that line for police in the field." The practical impact may not be large, said other observers, but the new ruling is another sign that the conservative members of the court intend to keep on whittling...
...balance very few graduates of Harvard or any other upper-middle and top-level college, whatever their ethnicity, will become ghetto elites. This means that increasingly Black graduates of Harvard must find ways to impact positively upon the crises of unemployment (60 percent for Black youth) and societal pathologies (crime, unwed-motherhood, unwed-fatherhood, disorganized neighborhoods) from their position in national or cosmopolitan job markets--in new technology firms, research firms, law firms, multinational corporations, federal and state bureaucracies, etc. Effectiveness at this depends upon many things to be sure, but certainly one crucial factor will be Black elites' ability...
KINETIC-ENERGY WEAPONS. They are simply objects like rockets, homing vehicles or even pellets fired at a missile, bus or warhead to destroy it by sheer impact. They are potentially effective at any stage from boost to re-entry, and can be fired either from the ground or from space. Their technology is well enough developed to make them available by the 1990s, much earlier than any of the beam weapons. Indeed, a terminal defense of sorts could be put into place right now. Main drawbacks: the range of kinetic-energy weapons is measured in hundreds rather than thousands...