Word: impaction
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Tony Abbott had been health minister for only a few months when his home fax machine discharged the fateful report one February morning last year. Outlining the possible impact on Australia of an avian-flu pandemic, the departmental brief stunned Abbott, whose gaze kept returning to the key forecasts: 13,000 deaths, 58,000 hospitalizations and 2.6 million people seeking medical help in just the first three months of an outbreak. Abbott attended a funeral that day, but on his way to and from the service he spoke by phone to the report's author, Chief Medical Officer John Horvath...
...Crimson counterpart had a far greater impact, which was made apparent in the first quarter, when the junior left the game on the third series. Holding his side in pain, Dawson left the field for a span as the Crimson offense sputtered and the Brown defense breathed a sigh of relief...
...Harvard at large, which is false. Harvard should be, and is, committed to keeping all of its students “safe,” and a call for “safe space” has lately become little more than a buzz word with, thankfully, diminishing rhetorical impact. Women’s center advocates would better serve their cause by stressing the one legitimate role that the space could play: as a place to centralize resources for women, such as the Office of Sexual Assault Prevention and Response. Still, these resources could easily be gathered together without...
...changed since same-sex “marriage” was imposed on Massachusetts is irrelevant. Nobody expected the sky to fall. It took several generations for the adverse effects on children of no-fault divorce to be understood, and the research is ongoing. Similarly, the negative cultural impact of redefining marriage will be revealed over several generations, not in several years...
...contractors have facilities in Texas and a big natural disaster could potentially damage the military industrial base. Another concern was the ports of Beaumont and Galveston, which are key debarkation points for U.S. troops and goods going to Iraq and Afghanistan. "We're not just looking at Rita's impact over the next few days and weeks-we're looking at how it might impact the war effort," said Col. Pounding on Friday morning. "Getting those troops and all that equipment lined up in close sequence is a monumental task...