Word: impaction
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...legumes lined the floor, glass jars full of licorice root stick teetered precariously, and the whole store smelled like the deepest corner of a spice cabinet. Topor pointed out the same things that Ms. Tognetti had: the “real” Nutella in the glass jar, the impact of the Euro on the Salumeria, the less than desirable bresaola (air-cured beef) from Uruguay. The resonances between their favorite parts of the North End were almost as reassuring as the things I heard and saw while walking through the neighborhood. It was like stepping back into the 1930s...
...after 63 percent of the 10,300 respondents to the Princeton Review’s annual “College Hopes & Worries Survey” said that “they would value having information about a college’s commitment to the environment and that it may impact their decision to apply to or attend the school.” The new “Green Rating”—based on the environmental friendliness of the college’s policies, health and sustainablity on campus, and how well the college prepares students to live...
...Melvin S. Davis: There are intense amounts of stress in short bursts. Studies can link the fact that we - myself being one of them - die much younger than our counterparts. And that comes back to stress and the impact it has on the body. My daily routine is dealing with aircrafts that have anywhere between two and four hundred people on board, and that are traveling at about 600 miles an hour. They all have an objective - to get the airplane on the ground as quickly as possible. And I have to be the traffic cop. In the high-density...
...spending on early childhood education, a higher minimum wage, and health insurance options available to all Americans. Obama and Clinton say they would pay for these plans by allowing President Bush's tax cuts to expire, and possibly raising the Capital Gains tax, moves that would have a greater impact on the wealthy than the poor...
...Still, despite the recent drop, analysts are optimistic. "The government does not want to see the worsening market start to bring about negative impact on China's economy and social stability," Dong Tao says. He believes the government wants to see the market rise steadily, but slowly, for the next few months. "Last May's tax increase unveiled the beginning of decline. Therefore the tax cut yesterday might as well be an indicator for the start of rise. If the market doesn't respond to the tax drop, more policies are bound to be issued," he says...