Word: impactful
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...former professor who was on Cosby's dissertation committee, Reginald Damerell. In a 1985 book critical of the nation's education schools, Damerell noted that Cosby took virtually no classes, got course credit for appearing on Sesame Street and The Electric Company and wrote a dissertation that analyzed the impact of his own show, Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids. Degrees like Cosby's, Damerell charged, "do not attest to genuine academic achievement. They are empty credentials...
...students at the school admit that Cosby's program was "not the most rigorous in the world," university officials insist he was given no special treatment. Cosby's dissertation, says Professor Louis Fischer, who was acting dean at the time, "was a very, very thorough, defensible study of the impact on children's values of the systematic watching of the Fat Albert program...
Grief-stricken families are blessed with perhaps the most extensive media attention, so victims can charge far more in case of their death--to be paid to their estates of course. Reporters love to surround parents who have had children recently slain, probing the emotional impact of the story in a sensitive yet hard-hitting manner...
There's Derek Mills, who notched 14 goals and four assists in only 11 games last season to top the Crimson scoring list in his freshman campaign. Getman terms him an "impact player" with the abililty to "take over the game and really make his mark...
While foreigners have poured billions of dollars into U.S. buildings, banks and blue-chip companies, it is the vast sums they are pumping into America's stock and bond markets that have the greatest impact on its economy. All told, foreigners last year held more than $500 billion worth of U.S. Treasury and other government securities, corporate bonds and shares in publicly traded companies. (They also owned $449 billion deposited in accounts in American banks.) U.S. holdings of foreign stocks and bonds amounted to $269 billion, but foreign holdings are rising faster. The fact is that outsiders are supplying...