Word: impactions
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...Puce stamps have no glue, no books to stick them in, and a four-color catalogue of gifts you can't have. They give impact to a new trend-nothing for nothing...
...Harvard professors are among ten scientists recently appointed to make a government study of the impact of smoking and air pollution on health...
...City Ballet arrived only a few days before Stravinsky departed, after a half-hour chat with Premier Khrushchev. Neither Balanchine nor his dancers could miss the tremendous impact that Stravinsky's visit had already had on Russian musicians long shut off from the fresh currents of Western musical thought. Russian music would not be the same again. Neither, chances were, would Russian dance...
...decision will have little immediate impact at the C. & N.W., where tough-minded Ben Heineman, who has already eliminated 600 telegraphers, plans to keep on all but 70 of the remaining 1,000 anyway. But in the long run it marked a stunning setback for the telegraphers. A year ago, Leighty's union extracted from the giant Southern Pacific a virtual guarantee to keep on all its telegraphers until their death or retirement and, with that encouragement, the telegraphers have since demanded a veto over job cutbacks on 33 other railroads. Now Garrett's decision rather than...
...last week passed another milestone in the space age-but this time the milestone was emotional as well as scientific. With the successful countdown and launch of Sigma 7, the near-flawless orbital performance of spacecraft and pilot and the extraordinary precision of impact and recovery, the U.S. space program graduated from quivering apprehension to solid confidence...