Word: impactful
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Nobody had been aboard, of course; the doomed jet was piloted by remote control for its final, 9½-minute flight last Saturday, and the crash was an elaborately designed, $11.8 million "controlled impact demonstration" that the Federal Aviation Administration and NASA had been planning since...
...condition of the harbor is in violation of both state and federal law. It is unsafe, unsanitary and totally indecent. It is a condition profoundly inconsistent with the public interest." Massachusetts Attorney General Francis Bellotti plans to call for a stay of the order this week so its impact can be assessed...
...beginning of the 1984 season, the Harvard men's soccer team was like the kid nobody wanted to pick. The booters were unranked both nationally and in New England, and none of the experts expected them to make much of an impact on the national or regional polls during the season...
Unlike most advances in theoretical mathematics, Karmarkar's work will have an immediate and major impact on the real world. "Breakthrough is one of the most abused words in science," says Ronald Graham, director of mathematical sciences at Bell Labs. "But this is one situation where it is truly appropriate...
...Washington to punish those countries that "diminish the effectiveness" of the international convention for the regulation of whaling. It can do this by curtailing their fishing rights and slashing by 50% the amount of fish they are allowed to take from American territorial waters. Such sanctions would have little impact on countries that do their fishing close to home. But they would have an enormous effect on the fish-eating Japanese, who last year alone accounted for 971,000 metric tons, or nearly 75% of the 1.3 million metric tons of fish taken from U.S. waters by foreign fishermen...