Word: impactful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Activists make an additional case against those who sell sex. They claim that regardless of the impact on men, those women who offer themselves up as the objects degrade their own humanity. The models and waitresses themselves might disagree, but that doesn't stop the activists from throwing issues of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue atop their bonfires. The argument goes that nefarious social pressures, perhaps even a history of abuse, force these women to peddle their bodies...
...there to help them through their ups and downs. I wonder if the Dean saw the pain in the expressions of these young men when they heard his response to their query. I wonder if the Dean recognizes that this is a pattern of behavior that could have an impact on all students at Harvard. I wonder why the Dean has not set up a discussion in Claverly Hall to help these young men, who in the words of Cornel West, new recognize that their ideas of themselves as Harvard students free to roam the University and Cambridge now "rests...
That scheme was rejected by her publishers, and Paradise was released to the public with a mournful, creakily "mystical coda that is easily the least effective passage of the book. Even without that concluding misstep, though, the impact of the first chapter within the circular framework Morrison attempts is severely diluted by two factors...
...Holmes project will benefit many local homeowners because their house values will increase proportionally. With this increase in the real level of wealth, local residents may generate positive externalities such as purchasing a new automobile with lower waste-emissions than a used one, resulting in cleaner air. The negative impact of the Holmes project may not be as bad as its critics think...
Steven Spielberg couldn't have asked for better publicity. Just as his big-budget asteroid-disaster movie, "Deep Impact," prepares to do the rounds, the astronomers announce that there actually is a chunk of rock out there that's set to rendezvous with the Earth -- in 30 years' time...