Word: impactful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Congratulations are in order to the authors of the anti-Damon Silvers letter you published on March 15, 1984 for reaching unprecedented lows in pettiness. While there many have been problems with Silvers' article, their criticism was irresponsible and destructive to a far greater extent than the impact of those students who have failed to take a position on Harvard's investments in South Africa. I can only question their motives. Surely Harvard's divestment is no longer paramount among their goals or such comments would have been made in a constructive rather than divisive manner...
...long-term impact of the Big Dan's rape case is unclear. Local rape crisis centers have already reported rape victims withdrawing cases in response to the press's treatment of the New Bedford case. Conversely, the publicity has forced many to re-evaluate rape and push for greater legal safeguards for rape victims...
...extent that affirmative action programs have helped reverse the impact of discriminatory hiring practices and few would argue that some progress has not been made they have succeeded because of strong federal support for such measures in the face of local indifference, or outright hostility. But the Reagan Administration has not only repudiated its leadership role in advancing equal opportunity. It has also actively worked to undermine strong historical and legal precedents for affirmative action...
Liebert, who spent three years as the NSF's program director for sociology, says that Lang's cc list mailings had impact in that agency. "I think standards were raised," he says, commenting on Lang's campaign against the Ladd-Lipset survey of colleges. "There ought to be more of us involved...
...project is to so generalize the image of the figure as to remove it from the sphere of "culture." Picasso hardly ever used models; every figure comes out of the head, and each face (despite the occasionally recognizable features of his last wife, Jacqueline Roque) aspires to the conceptual impact of the "primitive." As paintings, they do not necessarily get better as they get more masklike...