Word: impressment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Exhibits like these are likely to impress the computer hacker, who will feel for the hardships of the early computer programmers and appreciate the p2ogress that has been made. The computer illiterate person, whose dealings with computers are limited to the use of an automatic teller machine, however, may fail to grasp such subtle advances...
...himself as one of his party's "new pragmatists," those who know how to make tough spending cuts. While denying presidential ambitions, he has run television ads on Washington stations, which reach only 7% of the state's residents, in what may partly be an effort to impress powerful Washingtonians. A quarter of West Virginia's coal mines closed during Rockefeller's last term, and the unemployment rate at 13.6% is the highest in the country, but his prospects seem undamaged. "It's like, 'Don't blame Jay,' " grouses State G.O.P. Chairman...
...Equally impressive was the play of Harvard freshman goalie Kristen Abely, who continues to improve--and impress--every time she takes the field...
...administration's belligerent stand on nuclear arms, and correctly so. But it also falls into the same panicky anti-Sovietism we've seen so much of over the past four years. As soon as authors lodge legitimate criticism against the insanities of U.S. foreign policy, they feel compelled to impress their patriotism upon their readership, with usually annoying and frequently distressing results...
...Soviet leadership is too weak to unite on any new response to arms control, he said. But the Soviets hope Reagan, because he seeks reelection this year, may offer a concession to impress the American electorate, he added...