Word: impactful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When the Seton-Redmond ticket won the elections last fall, many in the council expected more of the same--an emphasis on issues that have a direct, visible impact on students, thereby leaving political activism to other campus organizations...
This change was planned before the Oscar disappointment, but certainly DreamWorks would have preferred to make the announcement while flush with triumph. Parkes, however, insists DreamWorks is triumphant enough after a strong year at the box office, with hits including Deep Impact and Saving Private Ryan. The company also scored nicely with Antz, its first animated film. And though Katzenberg did not have the giant smash he yearned for with Prince of Egypt, the picture will gross $100 million...
...broader question is whether DreamWorks is a dream that can work. The company has met with mixed results since its splashy launch. It has performed strongly in film, but most of its hits (including Impact and Private Ryan) have been joint ventures with other studios, which came up with the scripts. In television, DreamWorks has had some expensive failures (Ted Danson's Ink, for example) and only one solid hit: Spin City. In music, it has yet to strike gold. George Michael's DreamWorks debut was a disappointment. Newer acts on the label, such as Eels, Rufus Wainwright and Elliott...
...idea that a comet or asteroid might be bearing down on Earth--as in Deep Impact and Armageddon--can be traced to this crusading geologist. Probing Arizona's Meteor Crater in 1956, Shoemaker found a form of quartz that is created only by tremendous impacts. Finding the same telltale mineral in other craters, he concluded that they had been formed not by volcanoes, as most scientists thought, but by large objects hitting Earth. It was only a matter of time, he said, before Earth would be struck again. So he launched the first organized search for big incoming objects, recruiting...
...Luis and Walter Alvarez speculate that an asteroid's crashing into Earth 65 million years ago wiped out the dinosaurs and other species. In 1991 the putative impact crater is found beneath Mexico's Yucatan peninsula...