Word: impactful
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...underdog status demanded a knockout, and that he did not get. A quick ABC News survey of 695 viewers (with a possible sampling error of five points either way) showed Reagan a narrow winner: 39% to 36%, with 25% seeing it as a tie. The debate had virtually no impact on candidate preference: each man gained a single point, with Reagan getting a 56 to 43 edge and 1% undecided (down from...
...HARVARD OFFICIAL was quoted in a Yale senior thesis which charted the impact of affirmative action in admissions on Hispanic enrollment at Ivy League and Seven Sister schools. Three weeks ago at an annual all Ivy Chicano recruitment conference in Philadelphia, Yale senior Cathy Kisee-Sandoval shared her findings with about 75 undergraduates and administrators from 10 schools...
...leadership. It gives a person the desire to change things, the courage to act, the will to keep trying and the joy of achievement. Loss of vitality is not always a matter of age. Age measures only length of life, not a person's energy level or impact...
Offshore Oil Drilling. Watt had offered to lease up to a billion acres of continental shelf over five years for oil drilling in multimillion-acre tracts. The report charges that Clark continues to parcel the shelf in enormous chunks, overriding warnings of an undesirable environmental impact. Clark has postponed a decision on a critical 37 million-acre patch of land off the California coast until after the election, which the environmentalists interpret as a sign that he plans to lease the parcel when it is politically safe. (Clark insists that he is bound by a congressional moratorium until at least...
...behind. This fall, housebound students can examine issues in constitutional law under the guidance of such authorities as retired Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart and former President Gerald Ford. They can also study the workings of the human brain, thanks to a lavish $6 million series that for dramatic impact rivals anything on St. Elsewhere. Best of all, they can do it in prime time...