Word: impacting
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...when all the dust settled, Harvard got the worst of the impact. Slippery Rock took a 19-5 decision from the Crimson. Harvard's second-place finish in the Eastern Tournament could earn it a national tournament berth. The national championship tournament will be played in two weeks' time at Annapolis...
When he took the lead in the 1928 Republican presidential race by winning the New Hampshire primary, Herbert Hoover suddenly found his picture on the cover + of TIME. Historians may debate the impact of that distinction, but Hoover went on to occupy the White House. Since then, dozens of presidential hopefuls have appeared on the magazine's cover, with similarly unknowable results. "When TIME puts a candidate on the cover, we unavoidably become part of the political process," says Nation Editor Walter Isaacson, who edited this week's articles on Michael Dukakis and his New York Democratic-primary victory...
...Class Gift is a positive contribution to help ensure that future undergraduates have access to the same types of undergraduate programs and activities that we have enjoyed at Harvard-Radcliffe, regardless of their financial means. Unlike E4D's funds, donations to the Class Gift have an immediate and meaningful impact on undergraduate education...
...transitional classes. Defenders of the Georgia test policy point out that the CAT is not the only tool used to determine who passes and who stays behind: the kindergarten teachers' recommendations are given equal weight. Edward F. Zigler, Sterling Professor of Psychology at Yale, nonetheless worries about the lasting impact of flunking a formalized test: "If a child at five is given the message that he or she is a failure, a self-fulfilling prophecy may be perpetrated." And he offers what many colleagues may regard as a final word on the matter: "Kindergarten should be structured so that...
...ever lie awake at night wondering whether there is a gesture you could make that would have the same impact as Sadat's visit to Jerusalem...