Word: impactful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...recent column in the Cambridge Chronicle, Councillor William H. Walsh said the "citizens of Cambridge deserve...an open examination of Harvard's affiliated housing policy and its impact on the presence of affordable housing in Cambridge...
...candidates renewed campaign hostilities as their aides waited for the impact of Sunday night's nationally televised debate to show up in the close race for the White House. The first polls rated the 90-minute confrontation a tossup...
...friend or colleague, and every time the disk was run on a machine shared by other users, the code spread from one computer to another. Before long, the so- called Brain or Pakistani virus had found its way onto at least 100,000 floppy disks, sometimes with data-destroying impact. In each case the illicit program left behind a calling card for those savvy enough to find it: a message that began with the words WELCOME TO THE DUNGEON, and was signed by two men named Amjad and Basit...
...contradiction, Davidson rails against those who would create malignant viruses, calling them "copycats" and "attention seekers." Yet he cheerfully admits that he created his virus at least in part to draw attention to his programming skills. "In the beginning, I didn't think it would have this kind of impact," he says. "I just thought we'd release it and it would be kind of neat...
...also be used to test drugs that would be unsafe to test in humans and to study the mysteries of the immune system with a precision never before possible. Declared Dr. David Katz, who is head of the La Jolla institute: "This potentially rivals gene-splicing technologies in its impact. It has redefined what bioengineering can be about...