Some satellite developers are beginning to design spacecraft so that sensitive instruments are located towards the back of the satellite to minimise any risk of impact damage, and the side facing away from earth is shielded to protect it from meteoroids.
They have ruled out two possibilities -- mechanical "impact" damage, like that caused by being dropped, or short-circuiting outside the battery.
But that would help Barack Obama, embitter a mainstream party on which he has at last made a big impact and damage his like-minded ophthalmologist son, Rand, now a Republican senator.
But electricity customers are being asked to pay towards the impact of the damage to the underwater cable by covering the cost of lost sales.
Large pieces would survive the re-entry and could cause significant damage upon impact with the Earth.
Thanks to the new technology, the thickness of the screen panel has been reduced and the screen itself is much stronger to withstand damage from impact.
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Sometimes it is quite minor, only causing you to be dissatisfied with someone, and other times there is real negative impact, like reputation damage or even financial loss.
At those sorts of levels of overall economic damage, the impact on the rich world as well as the poor world is huge.
The bad news is there is a one in three chance for an impact that would cause local damage in the next 100 years, said Richard Binzel of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Binzel recently created a 10-point scale for estimating the threat of a near-Earth asteroid, with zero indicating no chance of an Earth impact and 10 indicating a certain Earth impact with severe, global damage.
"An initial visual assessment this morning indicated that no telescopes appear to have received major damage, but the impact of the fire on the instruments will not be known until a technical inspection of the telescopes can be done when the site is safe, " it said.
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The forestry department ordered pre-production to stop in November for an environmental impact study, but ruled last month any damage would be repairable.
"These are very high-force, high-impact injuries so they cause a lot of damage to tissue and to bone, " said Ron Walls, chairman of the department of emergency medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital.
Testimony from the hearing's two remaining witnesses focused on the economic impact of immigration reform, and whether it would damage job and wage prospects for citizens on the lower rungs of the economic ladder.
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Overall, however, the UK FTSE 100 index is 5.6% lower on the year, having fallen from 5, 899.94 to close at 5, 572.28 over 12 months, with worries over the impact of the eurozone crisis doing much of the damage.
Wall Street remains a ghost town Tuesday as New York City grapples with the impact of Hurricane Sandy, after the devastating storm caused incredible damage up and down the East Coast.
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Even if the nuclear accident is brought under control swiftly, and the release of radiation turns out not to be large enough to damage public health, this accident will have a huge impact on the nuclear industry, both inside and outside Japan.
Such an increase amounts to 0.16 inches per year, but the eventual impact could mean that a small storm could "do the same damage that Sandy did, " said Peter Howd, co-author of a 2012 U.S. Geological Survey report that found the rate of sea level rise had increased in the northeast.
Local agencies are still assessing the damage, but the large volunteer response has already made an impact.
Due to the wide swath of the storm damage up and down the East Coast, "the impact could be bigger than Katrina, " Mr. Beggs said.
He asked whether the government understood "that this will have a devastating impact on the finances of many of our universities and will do enormous damage to UK interests".
It may be too soon to say how extensive the damage will be to the Gulf region, or how much of an impact this calamity will have on our GDP in the near term.
Persons close to the development also said that a damage control exercise is likely as global partners are also concerned about the likely impact of the Satyam case on their existing clients.
But it said potential risks included public health hazards and environmental damage, disruption during construction, long term use of land, and an impact on the community from changes to the environment, property values and tourism.
Certainly, there have been plenty of medical studies that have tried to ascertain the damage concussions are wreaking in sports, but nothing is going to have the impact of whatever the IOM releases, as it has scheduled, in mid-2013.
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This has been -- had a profound impact on our economy, and the President has worked since he took office to help alleviate the damage that the bursting of the housing bubble has caused to our economy and to help homeowners refinance their homes, for example, or get forbearance in order to stay in their homes.
That means the financial damage to Lloyd's from this coincidence of horrific disasters is limited, with no material impact on the capital it holds to absorb losses.
The Crystal Palace midfielder was stretchered off with suspected ankle ligament damage and was replaced by rookie Evans - and the 19-year-old striker made a stunning impact.
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