The recently finished IMPACT-study by Oude et al. (personal communication), investigated barriers and facilitators for successful patient recruitment to gynecology/obstetrics trials in the Netherlands [ 44].
Mike Schmidt and Brooks Robinson were all but finished as impact players by their age-38 seasons.
As the strings rocked to and fro in the closing moments, taking the music beyond our hearing without it seeming actually to finish, the impact of this angry work hit quietly, powerfully home.
The impact which created the Caloris Basin must have occurred after most of the heavy bombardment had finished, because fewer impact craters are seen on its floor than exist on comparably-sized regions outside the crater.
The Impact finished 3-2 winners, but it could have been much better for the home team.
As those countries absorb a larger share of the world's raw and finished goods, the impact instead may be felt in the form of rising prices.
The daughter of the sprinter Smoke Glacken, she had not run in a graded stakes for two years, and then made only a modest impact, finishing second in the Grade I Frizette Stakes at Belmont Park.
As a result, the Agriculture Department was under pressure to allow the genetically engineered beets to be grown — and to do so in time for the spring planting season — even though it did not expect to finish the environmental impact statement until May 2012.
(The project is currently finishing its environmental impact statement, and awaiting funding).
Sometimes simple conversation ends up making an impact on the finished coffee and on the people who grow it.
When you first confront Richard Serra's "Torqued Ellipses" or Michael Heizer's "North, East, South, West" -- enormous, brooding concavities of steel -- they seem to be as much about the power to make art, about the resources needed to fabricate it, as they are about the impact of the finished piece.
