Word: impactful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Ikiru, The Seven Samurai, Throne of Blood, The Hidden Fortress, Yojimbo, High and Low; in his work, the CinemaScope frame always threatens to explode with odd tensions and latent energies. It is perhaps Ikiru, about a man with cancer who searches for meaning in life, that had the greatest impact on me. Seeing this film was one of the most intense emotional experiences of my teenage years. From then until the time, many years later, when I played a small part in his film Dreams, my admiration for the mental agility and physical energy of this great master...
Mandela began his series of appearances yesterday when he accompanied Machel to a ceremony at the United Nations honoring her work researching the impact of war on children and fighting to ban anti-personnel mines in her native Mozambique...
Avoiding the issue is no longer an option--its consequences are too great and its impact too personal. The chances of the scandal leaving our thoughts are no greater than the chances of it clearing off the front page. Yet, facing it becomes unbearable given the level of detail we now know. Even the jokes don't seem funny anymore...
...which all that mattered was that someone would buy the hot stock that some greater fool would soon bid up to an even higher price. The price-earnings ratio for the S&P 500 has approached a record 30 this summer, twice its historical norm. Securities analysts, reassessing the impact of the turmoil in Asia and other foreign markets, last week began chopping down their estimates for growth of U.S. corporate profits, to as little as 3% for all of 1998, and zero growth for 1999, a sharp drop from last year's robust...
Others seemed content to ride it out, in the knowledge that the gains of the past few years will cushion the impact of a down market now. "Anyone with brains knows the thing to do is to sit back and wait," says Stephanie Rubin, 52, an executive with a search firm in Chicago who has about $300,000 in stocks. "If it's down 25% on paper, it doesn't bother me because it's money tied up in an IRA account. I'm not going to touch this money till...