Word: impactful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...many scholars said that the problems at Harvard, if they are not having a severe impact now, will certainly hurt the school in the long...
Unfortunately, those sentiments haven't amounted to much. Even when overseers give students the chance to have an impact on University governance, the undergraduate community's myopic preoccupation with divestment makes true openness impossible. Or, more accurately, the myopic preoccupation of student activists with divestment makes true openness impossible...
Dukakis campaign aides said while they are pleased by the governor's strong showing in many states, it is too early to predict who will be the front-runner. Campaign strategisits said they will persue the same campaign plan, regardless of the impact of Biden's withdrawl...
Certainly the Pope has lost little of his personal impact. "People seem touched, enriched in some intangible way by the Pope's presence," observed Bishop James Malone of Youngstown, Ohio. One of the AIDS patients in the San Francisco congregation, Earl McLeod, thought that the gay demonstrators outside would have felt differently had they seen John Paul close up. "If they had heard what I heard," he said, "they would not be protesting...
...year, the company got a scare last week when its contract with the Canadian Auto Workers union ran out. Some 10,000 employees in Chrysler's four plants in Ontario went on strike, stopping production of such hot-selling models as the Dodge Caravan and Plymouth Voyager vans. The impact rippled across the border, idling 1,400 workers at Chrysler's plant in Belvidere, Ill., where most production was shut down for lack of Canadian-made parts, and 500 additional employees at a stamping plant operated by the firm in Warren, Mich. The Canadian union ended its walkout after four...