Word: impactful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...They tend to resemble Hello-Kitty Japan-i-junk and the ink they issue--pink, yellow, light purple--is legible only in partnership with dark paper. But now, thanks to the Stanford company--inventors of the incredible, indelible Sharpie--gel pens have found their redeemer. The uni-ball Gel Impact 1.0mm ($2.49) gushes ink like a rollerball without bleeding through the page. A blue or black fountain-like line without all the pretension or nib sucking, imagine that! The Gel Impact has sent shockwaves through the pen design community with its ultra-modern silver thatched pattern. Lest you lose...
That, of course, is why they're so incensed by the impact the social movements of the 1960s have had on American society and why continue to claim that the days before the 1960s were the "good old days...
Although Director of Admissions Marlyn McGrath Lewis '70-73 admitted that the change would probably have very little impact on the College's applicants, we laud the revision of policy all the same. Especially considering the growing trend among students to apply to collge early, we understand that the change is more of a symbolic gesture than anything else; a nod to struggling applicants unsure of which coast they belong on, what classes they want to take, what type of student life they want to experience, and which team they want to root...
...Economic Impact...
...they even apply. Too few minority high-school kids take science prerequisites, such as calculus and trigonometry, that colleges look for in applicants. Stonesifer does not disagree. "This certainly is not going to close the gap and solve all the problems," she admits, "but it will have a direct impact on 20,000 students...