What the government's consultation documents never explain is the brutal reality of the devastating impact expanding Heathrow will have on communities immediately surrounding the airport.
Dr. Jackson hopes to change that status through the Rensselaer Plan, an effort to increase the institute's research in "size, quality, prominence and impact"; expand its annual grants and other financing to $100 million within five years, from $40 million now; and emphasize biotechnology and information technology.
Many products are in current use for diverse commercial purposes, with an estimated economic impact expanding into trillions of dollars in the near future.
With the pace of globalization accelerating and its impact expanding, universities have begun to change as well, seeing increasing numbers of students flow beyond national borders, coordinating if not standardizing degrees and calendars, and collaborating both in research and in teaching.
So the game will go on, as the impact agenda expands.
"Clearly there is a near-term economic impact that expands each day for longshoremen, truckers, railroad engineers and warehouse workers," said Steve Getzug, a spokesman for the Harbor Employers Association, which represents the terminal operators.
Our work - and our impact - expands far beyond 1920!
Our measure of the relevance of expanding a given leaf provably approximates a measure of the impact of expanding the leaf on expected payoff, including the impact of the outcome of the leaf expansion on later expansion decisions.
Does staging a radio play reduce its impact, or expand it?
Nor that the climate impact of expanding palm oil plantations is likely to make weather patterns more extreme, volatile and even less predictable.
Even if some of his ideas were adopted, they would be unlikely to have much impact on expanding health coverage for the uninsured or on slowing the rise in medical costs.
