Word: impacting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Triassic-Jurassic extinction, however, that evidence may exist. Less than 500 miles northwest of the Nova Scotia fossil find is the enormous Manicouagan impact crater, its outermost ring--clearly visible in satellite photographs--measuring more than 90 miles in diameter. Given the margins of error in dating, the age of the crater (about 214 million years) makes it suspect in the 200 million-year-old extinction...
...recent events in Hanover have created an impassioned, if not embattled, atmosphere. Factionalism has divided a campus that prides itself on traditional community spirit. What long-term impact, if any, this divisiveness will have on the Dartmouth student body remains to be scene...
Feminism is not out to wreck the family. In fact, the family was breaking down long before feminism had any impact on American lifestyles. The New Right myth feeds on false images: the woman who suddenly finds herself with an option, a choice of whether to stay at home with the kid and the dishes or to pursue a career; the woman as lacking the stuff of real responsibility, of wondering with a flippant toss of the curls which option to choose...
CHRISTA McAULIFFE was not an astronaut. She was a public school teacher. She taught social studies and according to press accounts, stressed the impact of ordinary people on history...
...admitted later that they watched television throughout the day for whatever news could be gleaned. "We all shared in this experience in an instantaneous way because of television," said ABC Anchorman Peter Jennings. "I can't recall any time or crisis in history when television has had such an impact...