Word: impactful
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Some military analysts are more concerned about the impact on Israel's readiness for war. Every day some 6,000 soldiers patrol the territories. More than 90% are reservists, who owe the army about 60 days of service a year, twice the time served before the intifadeh. Yet they have little time for regular training. "We are eroding the army's resources, physically and intellectually," said Knesset member Sarid. So many normal training routines have been interrupted that, as a U.S. Pentagon official put it, "we fear a deterioration of I.D.F. military capability." American military attaches in close contact with...
Members of the committee, which is chaired by Prorzheimer University Professor Sidney Verba '53, have been closemouthed about the group's deliberations, but the panel has nonetheless generated controversy among students throughout the fall. MSA members charged that the faculty panel's potential impact was diluted by the inclusion of women faculty members in Verba's mandate. And the Women's Alliance announced it would try to insure that women were property considered in the forthcoming report...
Though historians will give him a rough time because of the impact of some of his policies, even the toughest appraisals will have to recognize successes that seemed impossible eight years ago. Reagan's four immediate predecessors presided over a frightening decline in presidential authority. Neither Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford nor Jimmy Carter could manage two full terms. Their serial failures left the presidency bordering on decrepitude. That an elderly celluloid cowboy from California unencumbered by heavy intellect, workaholism or Washington experience might halt that decline was inconceivable to the Eastern smart set. Yet Reagan not only arrested...
...medieval instrument used for storming castles. A native of Germany, Bikkembergs grew up in a strict, financially comfortable household. During his teenage years, he moved to Antwerp and became one of the leading designers in the city's gutsy fashion circle. Bikkembergs has some pretty strong ideas about his impact. "So far," he says, "I have made no money at all. But in four years, the world will be at my feet...
...took acting classes in the mid-'50s; the school voted him, and fellow student Dustin Hoffman, Least Likely to Succeed. A decade of small parts and menial jobs kept him going until 1964, when he scored in the Broadway comedy Any Wednesday. Three years later he made a screen impact in Bonnie and Clyde, and Hackman could finally support his wife Faye and three children from his actor's earnings. The couple were divorced in 1985, after 30 years of marriage. "Acting is a selfish profession," he says. "You have to be selfish with your time, your demeanor, your thoughts...