Word: impacting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Tsongas said his program may not have an immediate impact on the current fiscal woes of the higher education system because partnerships need time to develop. The partnerships will, however, provide a long-term solution, he said...
...exact. And like T.E. Lawrence, the Oxford-bred English lieutenant who led a Bedouin revolt against the colonial Turks, David Lean's film has grown in legend. Critics revere it as the cinema's greatest epic, and a young generation of filmmakers fondly cite its achievement and impact. "To me it is one of the most beautiful films ever made," says Martin Scorsese, whose Last Temptation of Christ was a Lawrence on the cheap. "The day before I saw it," says Steven Spielberg, who was 15 at the time, "I thought I wanted to be a surgeon. The day after...
...delectable morsels are coming to light as interest in laser grows (distributors predict the laser market will double in sales to $80 million by the end of 1989). But the historical fillips are more than curiosities and commercial come-ons. They make movies resonate with fresh possibilities and new impact...
...purpose of making the change was twofold. On the one hand to remove archaicism from the paper, and on the other to confront people with the fact that language does carry biases, and that these biases matter. Its impact was intended to influence those who work on the paper as much as those who read it. But the impact was negated...
...This is one of the most important decisions handed down by the court in this decade," said Federal Appeals Judge William Wilkins Jr. of South Carolina, the commission's chairman. The result, he said, will be "more uniform, fair and truthful sentences." The impact will reach far beyond the several thousand federal defendants who must now be resentenced. The new system means stiffer penalties for white-collar crimes, 87% of which currently end in probation...