Word: impactions
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...warning him that he might be dissipating his considerable influence over Congress with too many phone calls and elbow squeezings. "We don't want him to be one of the boys, just another Senator," said one. "We only want to use these calls where they will have maximum impact." But in the case of civil rights and the tax cut, Lyndon Johnson's efforts had IMPACT...
...Impact. The law has long recognized claims for emotional disturbances resulting from physical injury, even though there was no demonstrable link between the physical and mental harm. Newby claimed a whiplash injury, and although the connection between his aching neck and his psychosis was exceedingly faint, his case came within the old rule of negligence law, which allowed recovery for emotional injury only if there had been some physical impact...
...Cincinnati Kid has a jarring impact. Jessup describes the men and The Game in sharp, crackling prose; there is hardly a word of excess verbiage in his writing. Jessup's novel is one of those rare books you want to read again and again, to re-experience the tension of the story, and the starkness of his language and dialogue...
...where he will continue his leadership of the center, and Oxford, England, where he will do research, lie is currently working on a translation with revisions and noted of The Travels of lbn Buttuta, 1325-1359. Gibb, considered the leading scholar in his field in a specialist on the impact of the West on Arab society...
Slowed by earth's gravitation and not yet accelerated by the pull of the moon, the spacecraft would have to cruise for hours more, exposed to all the known and unknown hazards of space. One hour before impact, according to the plan, when it is about 4,000 miles from the moon, Goldstone would tell it to turn again, pointing its six TV cameras at the approaching lunar surface. With the moon 900 miles away and Ranger approaching at 4,000 m.p.h., the six cameras would start taking pictures-more than five per second. Radioed back to earth, those...