Word: impacting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...potential or adequately coping with altruism. While the history of recent totalitarianism affords a limited example of this situation, the attitude seems at times overly optimistic, and the plot structure sometimes strains to justify it. Had Tolkien converted the work into a tragedy, he might well have made his impact even greater. Yet the portrayal of the conflict's complexities, especially the use of evil to a good end, is without parallel in a work of this scope...
...Micrometeorites. Very small meteoritic particles will not puncture the skin, but impact detectors will report when they hit and will give an idea of their size and speed...
...Secretary and the Under-Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, and leading figures in the television industry will lead the first conference dealing with the impact of television on American education and culture...
While this ruling would have an obvious impact on such groups as Stanford's "Buck of the Month Club," its impact on the heavily regulated Ivy League is still uncertain. The Ivy League bans "try outs" and prohibits alumni clubs from paying travel of prospective scholar athletes to the Ivy schools. Alumni do, however, expend considerable personal and/or club funds on trips to interview the prospects in their areas. Such expenses under the new rule could no longer be exempted as contributions to charitable institutions. Expenditures of Ivy coaches are still met by the universities themselves, which are excluded from...
...Better Communities. The U.S. soon began to feel the impact of the commission's work. It sponsored 28 regional and national workshops, put out a monthly bulletin called Citizens and Their Schools and a successor monthly newspaper (Better Schools) which eventually had a circulation of 180,000. With the cooperation of the Advertising Council, it plastered its slogan, "Better Schools Make Better Communities," on billboards, books of matches, bread wrappers and license-plate tabs clear across the country. It answered up to 3,500 pieces of mail a month, sent out over the years 700,000 pieces of information...