Word: impacted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chaos spread through a neighborhood of neat small homes and tall palm trees. The bulk of the airliner smashed into houses near Nile and Dwight streets, the more intact remnant of the Cessna about six blocks away. The terrified PSA passengers trapped in the plummeting craft died instantly on impact with the earth. "It was a nonsurvival crash," one investigator said. Indeed, the carnage left in the wake of the fireballing metal fuselage gave mute testimony to that. Scraps of clothing hung from telephone poles. Parts of a briefcase were found here, fragments of computer printout papers there, a pair...
...There are no great deeds of this pontificate to recall," said England's George Basil Cardinal Hume sadly. Deeds, no. Impact, yes. Especially after the intellectual austerity of Paul VI, his successor's radiance, humility, directness and lack of pomp immediately endeared him to masses of people in a media age, as if they had befriended him by wire. "I felt that if I had a problem, I could go to this Pope and talk to him about it," said Father John T. Pagan of New York's Little Flower Children's Services. For many he seemed to rekindle singlehanded...
Under ordinary circumstances such scanty evidence would have made little impact upon the NCI. Even in cancer victims who have had no treatment, tumors occasionally shrink and even disappear-possibly because the victims' immune systems become reinvigorated. Thus, in the two submitted cases, Upton says, "there was no way we could conclude confidently that remission resulted from Laetrile." Furthermore, in most laboratory tests, Laetrile has had no effect on animals with cancer-the reason that the NCI has given in the past for refusing to begin testing of humans. Still, the increasing political pressure apparently had its effect...
Keenan, who is also dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS), said yesterday he will be particularly involved in Core issues affecting GSAS, including the problems of finding teaching fellows for Core courses and the impact on graduate programs of the teaching load graduate students will have to carry...
...citizens is faring well: the customers of prostitutes. Under a law that took effect shortly after the pooper-scooper statute, the names of hookers' patrons are available to the press whenever the vice squad strikes. Frets Captain Eugene Brozio at Manhattan's Midtown North precinct house: "To get any impact on the Johns, you need widespread publicity, and thanks to the strike we're not getting...