The shape or architecture of a plant is specified through the activities of indeterminate and determinate meristems, and the sum of these events sharply impacts plant growth habit, productivity, and crop management.
— has had a very sharply positive impact on markets," John P. Lipsky, the first deputy managing director of the International Monetary Fund, said Monday in a conference call with reporters.
Sales of expensive jewellery, watches and handbags the products that make the juiciest profits for the big luxury-goods groups dropped sharply.The impact has been most striking among the handful of large, quoted luxury-goods companies (see chart 1).
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In this, just about everybody here agrees, the soldiers have made an important impact, sharply reducing crimes like murder, house-breaking and car hijacking in just weeks.
He relied on World Bank research for a recent report -- commissioned by Oxfam America, Friends of the Earth, Environmental Defense, Catholic Relief Services and the Bank Information Center -- that sharply criticizes the impact of extractive industries in Africa.
Some of the most impressive campaigns of the last few years are those that have found creative ways to bring a problem out of the shadows, by simply, sharply, tallying its impact.
Page B1 MORE JOBS FOR MACHINES A faltering economy explains much of the job shortage in America, but advancing technology has sharply magnified the impact, more so than is generally understood, according to two researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
See articleSWIFT actionSWIFT, an international electronic bank transfer system, suspended transactions with EU-sanctioned banks in Iran, a move that sharply increases the impact of sanctions on Iran's economy.
There, a change in the counting mechanism by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which awards the Oscars, has sharply diminished the impact of second-place, third-place and other votes down the ballot, while allowing a film with as few as 250 first-place votes, in a group with almost 6,000 members, to capture a nomination.
