Word: impactful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Still, the seven-week-long student protest in Tiananmen Square hit with the impact of a revelation, especially since it coincided with a very different sort of democratization taking place in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. While the leaders of China dithered over what to do about the students' occupation of the political heart of the country, President Mikhail Gorbachev presided over the opening of a Congress whose members included purged former comrades, dissident intellectuals and outspoken non-Russian nationalists. In Poland the first halfway-open election in four decades produced a humiliating defeat for the Communist Party...
...earthlings about the environment in a 60-second spot: "Public lands aren't like pizzas. You can't call up and order more." Tips about recycling, ozone depletion and aerosol sprays will be inserted in next season's shows. "If characters on shows are making these changes, they will impact the home," says producer Norman Lear...
...John has viewed the school as a business that's in the business of developing and disseminating intellectual capital," says Stevenson. "If the goal is to have an impact on the way people think about business, then you really have to say that disseminating it broadly is an important element of that task--and John has promoted us well...
...although the whistles were purchased, they have not been distributed. Harvard has also not said if it will improve lighting. However, the Cambridge City Council endorsed the Undergraduate Council's efforts, and while the tangible effects of the council's security efforts remain to be seen, their impact may extend beyond paper goals...
Professors' descriptions of the impact of their Washington sojourns seem to bear out this assertion...