Word: impactful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seven are either present or former freshman sensations--players who made a sudden impact on the world of Ivy League women's hockey...
These seven made an impact on the game right from the opening faceoff in Saturday's Harvard-Princeton showdown at Bright Center. All started the game...
Joslin didn't have an offensive impact the way she normally does. But on the defensive end of the ice, she broke up rushes and skated and passed with supreme confidence...
...molecule of coherent information emerged from the encounter -- except the encounter itself. The medium is the message, in Marshall McLuhan's famous dictum. Bush afterward compared the exchange to combat, but if so, it was the combat of Saturday morning cartoons: Bang! -- Poof! Boom! -- Poof! Language disintegrated on impact. When Bush slugged Rather with the line about Rather's once walking off the set of the CBS Evening News, the anchorman looked for an instant like Wile E. Coyote when, gimlet-eyed, he understands he is about to plummet into the abyss...
...that 23 nations and two alliances have not settled that issue during 14 years of talks. Admiral William Crowe, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, also undermined the conservatives' argument, saying the Joint Chiefs have concluded that "this treaty is militarily sufficient and adequately verifiable ((and)) has no impact on NATO's fundamental strategy...