Word: impactful
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...private schools. But with the deficit and arms control occupying his attention, he may do what he did in the first term: pay lip service to the Moral Majority and its allies while keeping its legislative proposals on the back burner. Reagan could have a larger and more lasting impact on social issues if there are vacancies on the Supreme Court. With two or three Reagan appointees, court conservatives might have the votes to overturn landmark decisions legalizing abortion and banning school prayer...
...size and quality of this new generation that most disturbed politics in 1984-first on the Democratic side and then later, with possibly greater future impact, on the Republican side, as young men maneuvered for the succession...
...just postage stamp collecting." Knoll says, adding that "their work has had a critical impact in basic biology...
...really don't believe they appreciate the impact of that action," said Susan Noonan-Forster, president of CTA, adding that the association would file an unfair labor practice charge with the state labor relations commission...
These, respectively, are the opening images of two dance theater pieces by Sankai Juku, Jomon Sho (Homage to Prehistory) and Kinkan Shonen (The Kumquat Seed), which have the clear, smooth grace of a rock in a Japanese garden and the impact, simultaneously, of the same rock hurled. Each piece has a rather spindly framework that is part narrative, part philosophical speculation and part rendering of the collective unconscious poised perpetually between rigor and hysteria. Jomon Sho is a plunge into the mythic past and is the more literal of the two pieces Sankai Juku presented last week at New York...