Word: impacting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bureau Chief Dean Fischer at Uruba Palace, he conceded that he knew a passenger had been murdered when he let the hijackers fly from Egypt, but strongly defended his action. Puffing on a cigar, the President was animated and occasionally agitated as he discussed the dramatic events and their impact on U.S.-Egyptian relations...
...proponents of these measures, which can have nothing but a positive impact on the nation--Thank...
...sets, lights and costumes. Les Miserables is lavish, with turntables rotating iron gates, marble pillars and big makeshift barricades. Nickleby told of virtue rewarded and villainy punished, while Les Miserables depicts a world less blessed with moral order. But whether or not Les Miserables can match Nickleby's commercial impact, it is extraordinarily ambitious and exciting. Its complex story unfolds with clarity and urgent speed, although at times it seems overeager to please with romantic or comic distractions. Claude-Michel Schonberg's score is almost operatic in its emotional intensity and its use of themes and variations, yet it provides...
...overall, reports Joan McCord, a sociologist, "the impact on morale has been tremendous." McCord is conducting a five-year study of the effects of Drexel's computerization by measuring such intangibles as self-confidence and optimism about the future. Her samples show sharp increases for both students and faculty. "We're trying to be cool-headed about this," says Banu Onaral. "But in the hands of a professor who really believes, it seems the computer can do miracles...
...garments, the tones of the fabrics, the unstructured and unstrictured social attitudes implicit in both the making and the wearing of Miyake clothes are, altogether, something rather more than an alternative form of dressing. They are Japanese in origin, Western in spirit and, finally, universal not just in their impact but in the ravishing new images of the body they propose. These clothes taunt trend and defy style; they are not "fashion," except in its broadest generic definition. They are objects made by a designer who has the true spirit of an artist...