Word: impacting
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Through an hour and a half of public comment, beginning with State Representative Alice Wolf, many residents came up to the microphone in support of the ordinance, citing their children's safety, personal health issues, and the environmental impact of asbestos particles...
...site says, "Smokers and potential smokers should rely on these messages in making all smoking-related decisions," does a tobacco company actually mean smokers should quit? Certainly not; it would go out of business. It is only because Philip Morris knows that such pious statements have little impact that it publishes them. After all, the scientific evidence regarding the impact of smoking has been around for quite a while, at least since 1964, when the first Surgeon General's report relating smoking causally to lung cancer, coronary artery disease, chronic bronchitis and emphysema came...
After watching a series of outrageous "Can you top this?" ads make an ever diminishing impact, a few dot.coms are apparently coming to the same conclusion. Outpost is going ahead with a less jarring ad. Technology supersite Cnet, which made a splash with an ad featuring a man's visit to the proctologist, is altering the course of its $100 million attack, opting for a clear message over shock value...
Paleontologists know plenty about the demise of the dinosaurs, not just how it happened--most likely in the aftermath of a cataclysmic comet or an asteroid impact 65 million years ago--but also the variety of species that were around at the time. But there is very little evidence about the other end of the age of dinosaurs. No one knows precisely when the "terrible lizards" arose or what the earliest dinosaurs were like...
...Generally speaking, media coverage has a huge impact," said John Zogby, who runs Zogby International, one of the nation's most prestigious polling companies...