Word: impacting
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...plume, looking particularly for water ice, hydrocarbons and other organics that will break down as they are exposed to their first flashes of sunlight in billions of years. Shortly after that, the LCROSS, too, will complete its suicide plunge, smashing into the ground just miles from the first impact site...
...economic impact of car accidents: "The road traffic injury epidemic also has considerable impact on the economies of many countries, particularly low-income and middle-income countries that are frequently struggling with other development needs. The global losses due to road traffic injuries are estimated to be U.S. $518 billion and cost governments between 1% and 3% of their gross national product - more than the total amount that these countries receive in developmental assistance...
...concerned at all that presenting a new face to the public - one that's boisterous enough to satisfy cable-TV viewers - could impact your reputation as a prime-time broadcaster? A smarter guy might worry about that. I don't know that I qualify. I've been doing Fox since I was 25, and I'm in my 16th season with the network. I feel like I've put my time in there. I don't think this is going to detract from...
...fall to the bottom of global health priorities. It's important to remember also that the rising rate of chronic diseases in developing nations does nothing to relieve the co-existing burden of infectious diseases like tuberculosis - many such countries now face a "double burden" that can worsen the impact of each...
...they are hardly isolated from global events: the impact of the worldwide recession is pushing some Central Asian societies to the brink. Tajikistan, like other poor Central Asian nations, has over the years seen many of its able-bodied men leave to work in the more prosperous cities of Russia and oil-rich Kazakhstan - at least a tenth of the Tajik population of 7 million is migrant labor. Remittances sent home comprise some 40% of the country's total GDP, according to UN figures, and account for only slightly less in Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan. Now, with the collapse...