Word: impactful
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...most important impact the next president may have will be on the judical system. The court is already set to reconsider cases that have pushed civil rights and women's rights forward; Reagan nominees have shown that they are intent upon cutting them back. With three liberal justices poised for retirement, the next president, in effect, will cast the deciding votes. Bush supported the nomination of Robert Bork and he cast the tie-breaking Senate vote confirming reactionary Daniel Manion as a federal judge. He certainly would appoint justices who would send civil rights and civil liberties spinning backwards...
George Bush says that he chose Quayle because he was a younger image of himself. He is right. Bush may have more experience and more titles that his running mate, but his impact has been obscure when it has not been dangerous...
Morris' interest in computers also had anadverse impact on his academic work. He was put onacademic probation after his freshman year andtook a year off. "His courses were too regimentedfor him," said Kuperberg. "He tended to lose trackof his coursework...
Friends were uncertain what impact the virusincident would have on Morris' career. Some saidthat because of an outstanding resume, Morriswould have had little trouble finding a goodcomputing job. The exposure he gained by creatingthe virus would only add luster to his reputation,they said...
...superpowers are in the midst of a second detente, more profound than the first because it is accompanied this time by a serious Soviet attempt at internal reform. Detente II has yielded an arms reduction agreement (the INF treaty) of marginal strategic importance but of such profound psychological impact that the peace movement, which only five years ago threatened to overthrow Western nuclear policy, has been eclipsed...