Word: impacting
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...successful than the junior and senior year counterparts and is not taught by faculty members to any appreciable extent. These deficiencies account, more than anything else, for the common complaint that "students are not really taught by the faculty." Since all studies suggest that colleges make their greatest intellectual impact in the earliest years, there is clearly a problem here that requires a solution...
There is already evidence that the conversion to alternatives to oil is being delayed. In the first nine months of 1977, U.S. utilities canceled or delayed construction of 26 major coal-fired plants, as well as 36 nuclear-powered ones. With the added impact of the coal strike, the future of Carter's coal-based energy policy looks, well, dark...
...terrorist slaughter in Israel is bound to have a psychological impact on the talks between Jimmy Carter and Menachem Begin when the Israeli Premier finally makes his postponed trip to Washington, his third visit to the U.S. On the day after the slaughter, for example, Begin made it clear that his attitude toward the return of the occupied West Bank of the Jordan River had, if possible, hardened even further. A Palestinian state there, he declared, "would be a mortal danger to our people and to our country." Moreover, the question arose of just what effect the Sabbath massacre would...
Eric F. Goldman, Princeton University historian, on the impact of the 1960s: "This period was a watershed as important as the American Revolution or the Civil War in causing changes...
...common complaint, Bok reported, is that "students are not really taught by the Faculty." This problem is most severe during a student's first two years here, when College life makes its greatest impact, Bok says...