Word: impaction
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...Yahoo! Food project has been percolating for eight months, but it remains to be seen how much impact it makes in an increasingly crowded field which includes FoodNetwork.com, Zagat.com, Chowhound.com and other web dining destinations...
...occurrence of a jayvee player moving up to a Division I varsity team unlikely to be repeated. “Every single one of [the freshmen] has gotten a lot of game experience,” Odorczyk said. “It is going to have a huge positive impact on the team next year...
...though the Dems have more students attending an on-campus debate, that is not what will make a difference once the polls open on November 7. The Democrats have set their sights on making an impact on the national scene by contacting various competitive campaigns across the country. The Republicans make similar efforts, but the impact is not as strong without significant member participation...
...nation's original plan called for denying felons the vote. In 1800, no state prohibited felons from voting. On the eve of the Civil War, 80% of the states did, largely to block African Americans, who though rarely allowed to vote were disproportionately represented among felons. Today, the impact of these laws still falls disproportionately on poor, minority males, a fact that seems to have skewed more than a few elections. Anyone familiar with the details of the deadlocked 2000 presidential race will recall that tens of thousands of likely Democratic voters were disenfranchised because of Florida's laws against...
...companies were always going to comply with their 20-year contracts," says Yussef Akly, spokesperson for Hydrocarbons Chamber, an association of over 100 gas and oil companies operating in Bolivia. "But it's the question of investment. Bolivia's move generated conditions that could have had a severe impact on a company's decision to increase its stake here." In the end, however, the agreements do include major investment plans - more than $2 billion over the coming years - alleviating fears that the foreign companies would punish Bolivia by refusing to invest and only sustaining the bare minimum of operations here...