Word: impactful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cultural space would probably not have opened up as much as it did without the movement's divine delirium." Gitlin's greatest achievement in this monumental book, perhaps, is that he is able to avoid the elegiac fatalism of the Ghost Dance in his analysis of the complex impact that this seemingly most self-contained, all or nothing of decades has had on contemporary society...
After all. James has always been an impact player. At 6-ft., 4-in. and 200 lbs., James is usually too big for enemy forwards...
...James has had immediate impact on the team. He leads the squad in scoring (14.1 points per game) and rebounding...
...containment booms and absorbent booms to soak up the oil and prevent it from entering the water," said Myles E. Brown, the spokesman for the state Department of Environmental Quality Engineering. "We won't know the full impact of the spill until the reports are in, but it seems that the environmental impacts will be minimal...
...publication called Spectrum, produced every few weeks by journalism students at Hazelwood East High School near St. Louis. In May 1983, Principal Robert Reynolds summarily ordered two articles deleted from the paper. One featured the experiences of three Hazelwood students who had become pregnant; the second dealt with the impact of parental divorce on students. Though the girls in the first piece were given pseudonyms, Reynolds believed that they were identifiable, that the article was too frank for younger students and that its overall picture of teenage pregnancy was too positive (sample quote: "This experience has made me a more...