Word: impaction
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...small new brand through an unpaid plug in a magazine from their favorite starlet, like those that MAC cosmetics and Stila experienced in the 1990s. It's no surprise that a nod from a star who receives no compensation beyond a bag of freebie products has a more meaningful impact...
...rural areas has created vacuums that are being filled by an array of antigovernment forces: Islamists in the south, '80s-era warlords in the west and drug runners in the north. Meanwhile, the fighting between coalition troops and the Taliban has halted new reconstruction projects and undermined the impact of finished ones. Only half the aid pledged to the country since 2001 has been distributed, and violence has rendered the road from Kabul to Kandahar--until now, the U.S.'s biggest reconstruction success--impassable...
...Sept. 11 attacks. I've been so busy dealing with everything else I've mentioned. But maybe that was my way of dealing with it. In some ways it's like losing a family member. You can spend so much time sorting out the funeral arrangements that the impact doesn't hit you until later...
...allies, and for such key Security Council powers as Russia and China, sanctions represent a slippery slide to confrontation. Iran is unlikely to change its position in response to the limited sanctions that will probably be adopted, and it knows that the international community is unlikely to risk the impact on world oil prices of cutting off Iran's crude exports. Many diplomats fear that moves to isolate Iran will harden the position of its regime, and make military confrontation more likely...
...Whatever the reasons behind them, though, there is little doubt that the jailings and other measures are having a chilling impact. "Of course it makes us scared," says one Christian who witnessed the clash at Hangzhou. "We call it killing the chicken to scare the monkey. They are using us as an example so that other Christians in the rest of the country are obedient...