Word: impactions
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...cope with the growing threat, the Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicle, or MRAP, has become a staple of patrols. The hulking personnel carrier is equipped with a V-shaped hull to absorb and disperse the impact of most roadside bombs and keep rolling. Some argue they are too hefty for the Afghan terrain, but many officers swear MRAPs have saved lives. There are plans to introduce a lighter version...
...biggest impact, though, lay in the example she set. She showed that the Web was not just for the young but for anyone interested in "[interacting] with the world." For López, amis95 was a way to communicate with her blogueros, the readers who flocked to it in droves--and made her last two years the most connected of her life...
...tradable carbon credits, 15% would be auctioned off, the rest donated to businesses like cement and steel plants to soften the bill's economic impact...
...Brown, the impact could be most painful of all. Labour lost control of all four of its remaining county councils in local elections also held last Thursday. And as a string of disillusioned Ministers rushed for the exits in the days on either side of the poll, Brown even bungled a Cabinet reshuffle designed to reassert his authority. Trailing in third in the European elections leaves the PM "beaten by a party that he mocked and derided as being on the fringes," said UKIP leader Nigel Farage. "So if we have beaten...
Barondes says Stanton's color played no role in her candidacy, but neither he nor Stanton - a divorced single mother to Shana, 14 - is unaccustomed to the impact of race in America, particularly in the South. Indeed, leaders of the Alabama synagogue where Stanton trained for a year as a student rabbi never believed their white congregation would accept an African-American at the pulpit. Complaints were lodged and calls were made. Yet by the end of her training, the synagogue was deeply saddened to see her go. "Everyone has their initial impressions and outmoded stereotypes," Stanton reflects...