Word: impactful
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...Herbert H. Bateman (R-Va.) said it is simply not "the American way of doing business," and questioned what impact such a move would have on western allies helping in the escort effort...
Michael Tinkham, Professor of Applied Physics at Harvard, who has concentrated on the study of superconductivity for the past 30 years, said that the discovery has had an "immediate and immense impact on all of physics...
Although the last student, Greg Williams, originally received the most severe level of disciplinary probation, he has since been granted the freedom to play varsity football, which serves to virtually annul the essential impact of the Ad Board's decision. The obvious question is what exactly is the meaning of disciplinary probation "vice severe" after this recent development...
...like a national group-therapy session than a workweek," says Chicago Correspondent Elizabeth Taylor. Hite's basic conclusion, that women are profoundly dissatisfied in their dealings with men, was hotly debated. "Some people say her questions are rigged," notes Reporter-Researcher Jeannie Park. "But you can't deny the impact that her books have had." Though some staff members took issue with Hite's methodology and analysis, they sympathized with the women she quoted. "The voices in the book are telling us something," says McDowell. "Two decades after the women's movement began, communication between the sexes remains an issue...
Some Southerners are worried that Bork's impact on civil rights legislation could revive the hostilities of the 1950s and '60s over desegregation. Announcing his opposition to Bork last week, Texas Democrat Lloyd Bentsen remarked, "In virtually every case where he has taken a position, Judge Bork has opposed the advancement of civil rights over the past 25 years." Former President Jimmy Carter stressed that point in a letter he sent to the Senate Judiciary Committee last week. Wrote Carter: "As a Southerner who has observed personally the long and difficult years of the struggle for civil rights for black...