Word: impacting
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...similar to many flown by U.S. carriers. A 60-page preliminary report released last week by Japan's Transport Ministry provided a dramatic transcript of voice recordings made during the doomed 45-minute flight of JAL 123. The report, however, failed to establish the cause of "the unusual impact" that crippled the vertical stabilizer and caused the plane to crash into a remote mountainside, killing 520 of the 524 people aboard...
Falwell is the most effective--and maybe because of his tremendous impact, the most unnerving--of the nation's video preachers. His is a spectacularly risky mission. He must on the one hand reassure his zealous followers that he is faithful to the fierce absolutes of the Bible. At the same time, he must appear reasonable and unmenacing to the watching outside world. Explains Falwell: "We want to be part of society without endorsing all the philosophies and life-styles of that society...
...firemen had just entered through the door over the right wing when the jet's rear was rattled by an explosion, perhaps caused by the ignition of the oxygen tanks that supply the plane's emergency masks. Seconds later, another blast, closer to the front, rocked the aircraft. The impact swept Wilson off his feet and backward into Beech, saving Wilson from being blown out of the plane. Like 79 of the flight's 83 survivors, he had to receive medical treatment. (Four of the flight crew members, including the pilot, escaped unharmed.) At week's end twelve remained hospitalized...
...president certainly has not relinquished control of Harvard at home. Perhaps one of his most characteristic positions, Bok holds that universities have a social responsibility to inculcate ethical standards as well as academic and practical principles in the classroom. If one had to point to Bok's primary impact on American education, it would almost certainly be his belief that Harvard academia should not be isolated from the modern world. While he often claims that Harvard's mission is education and education alone (a position shared with some who think scholarly work should remain separate from modern culture and politics...
Last Friday, Bush came face-to-face with some of the people who would feel the impact of the proposed cost cutting measures. At Teradyne's assembly line, he posed for pictures with a select group of workers. Later, he cited their stories as living proof that the American Dream is a reality...