Word: impaction
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...often obscures this individuality.It seems that the tendency to see any action taken by a female as indicative of some broader assertion about women in society comes from two main sources—the need to add a broader point to news stories and thus give them more impact, and the focus on the female sex as a whole triggered by the women’s rights movement.After four years on The Crimson, I understand the desire to try to explain subtle social changes to readers. One of the jobs of a journalist is to identify and explore societal undercurrents...
...biggest impact on the world, I think, was to provide a model of a kind of social science that is politically engaged and balanced in its use of textbook science with practical experience,” Parker said. “His initial training was in agricultural economics, which is a very applied economic theory...
...great faculty-student relationship can be transformative, nurturing intellectual interests and contributing to a student’s personal development. I was reminded of this fact when I returned to my high school last week, where I caught up with no fewer than eight teachers who had a significant impact on my life. But that kind of relationship is a reality for precious few of us of at Harvard.It may not be surprising that this happens in economics, with its student-faculty ratio of about 20 to 1, nor in government, which has a ratio...
Laboring under these very constraints, legendary New York Times reporter and columnist James Reston exhorted newspapers to aspire to the massive impact but poor aim of artillery pieces. Media, he says, should cover anything and everything, for journalists fail more surely when they pass up a potential story, not when they cover too much. Better to send more shells slamming into the public discourse than leave it unmolested and, consequently, unchallenged...
...hindsight, The Crimson’s coverage of the e-mail leak had little impact beyond embarrassing the club’s members, and for that I’m sorry. Our student-run artillery piece of a newspaper is always learning how to aim better. But, ultimately, in a free society, the price of enjoying unfettered access to information is sometimes finding oneself in the crosshairs...