Word: impacting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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During a dive, the light recedes above the conning tower. Silver gives way to green as the sub slowly sinks and finally bumps on the bottom of the bay. A kind of breathing silence enshrouds the diver. When the two electric engines are switched on, the first impact is like being caught inside a vacuum cleaner. But noise is soon forgotten as S 250 noses along just above the floor of the bay, a flat, sandy-brown miniature moonscape unrolling beneath the 3-in.-thick, 16-in.-in-diameter window in the bow. Cynically one expects to find old shoes...
...House bill trims individual income taxes by $10.5 billion, mainly through the device of widening the brackets so that people will not move so quick ly into higher ones when they earn more money; it thus softens the impact of inflation on taxes. Other elements...
...more and more injuries are the outcome of America's newest athletic addiction: running. Appropriately, the damage tends to occur from the ground up. A typical distance runner's foot strikes the ground 1,000 times a mile each seven to ten minutes, and the force of impact is about three times his weight. The shock wave travels from heel through ankle to lower leg, knee, upper leg, hip and lower back. Ill effects are legion. Every runner sooner or later is likely to suffer from a sprained or twisted ankle, knee inflammation, stress fracture...
These young couples are having a major economic impact. The U.S. League of Savings Associations reports that 45% of all 1977 home buyers were two-earner families and more than two-thirds of them were under 34. When buying houses, the elite pays large sums, but is very particular. Observes David Kosta, a broker at Swanson Associates, realtors in Winchester, Mass.: "Single-income families want the most modern homes, with everything showy. The double-income couple likes older houses with character. They want the original woodwork and even the old-fashioned plumbing fixtures...
...event in Moscow's Russian-language papers) looked on as the newlyweds departed. The wedding itself was attended by only eleven guests, none of whom were from the bride's family. Like other members of the tight-knit international shipping community, they are uncertain what impact the marriage will have on the $500 million Onassis fleet, in which Christina has a 48% interest. (The rest is held by the Monte Carlo-based Alexander Onassis Foundation, which is run by a troika of Ari's cronies.) About 90% of the fleet's tanker business involves the transportation...