Shuttle Launch Director Mike Leinbach said the crew did not let the one-day delay have a negative impact on them.

VOA: standard.2010.02.08

Kakutani says Over-fishing also has a cultural impact on groups like Native Americans, who have relied on local seafood for centuries.

VOA: standard.2010.07.14

But it will have a big impact on the way cigarettes are produced and sold - particularly to young people.

VOA: standard.2009.06.22

The non-governmental organization Food Security Policy Advocacy Network studied the impact of multinational jatropha production in the Volta, Eastern,Central,and Ashanti regions.

VOA: standard.2009.08.23

He was not kidding. The most significant detail is the cost of his plan and its impact on our long-term budget deficit,".

VOA: standard.2009.09.12

But Eroglu supports a two-state confederation, which could negatively impact Turkey's bid to join the European Union.

VOA: standard.2010.04.15

Dr.Gerard Martin says the IMPACT registry for catheterization patients will help doctors to make decisions based on long-term evidence gathered from many hospitals.

VOA: standard.2010.01.01

Those teams,he said, are also looking at the possible impact - short and long term - of the dispersant that BP has been using.

VOA: standard.2010.05.26

She says her organization, albeit a non-profit, has an economic impact that should be acknowledged.

VOA: standard.2010.02.24

Climate change expert Konrad Steffen, of the University of Colorado in the United States, explained the impact of climate-induced sea level rises to coastal areas.

VOA: standard.2009.03.12

Dr.Mark Hamer's study on the psychological impact of second-hand tobacco smoke appears in the Archives of General Psychiatry, a journal published by the American Medical Association.

VOA: standard.2010.06.15

Salem also thinks that the recent improvement of relations between the United States and regional powers, as well as relations among those regional powers, should impact positively on Iraq's geo-political situation.

VOA: standard.2009.10.26

What we will say is this is one of the instruments -- by reinstating the ban -- that could have a profound impact on the number and caliber of weapons going down to Mexico,".

VOA: standard.2009.04.12

The agency report called for the need to adapt to an increase in more intense hurricanes in the Caribbean, above-average warming impact on glacier-dependent river flows in Central Asia,and droughts affecting fragile economies in North Africa.

VOA: standard.2009.09.01

"I am particularly concerned by the long duration of unemployment faced by a great number of workers, and the disruptive impact that this long-term unemployment has had, and will have on these workers and their families.

VOA: standard.2009.04.03

Nicholas Lardy, an economist and senior fellow at the Washington-based Peterson Institute, says China's unwillingness to adopt derivative loans and other high-risk financial products helped to shield it from the impact of the world economic downturn.

VOA: standard.2009.11.10

With large areas of the Gulf closed to fishing and the industry reeling from the impact of the spill, the president announced what he called a comprehensive coordinated multi-agency initiative to ensure that seafood from the Gulf is safe to eat.

VOA: standard.2010.06.14

As Congress waits to hear the outcome of the president's review, there is mounting concern about the ramifications of whatever decisions he makes, both short and long-term impact, for the United States, the South Asian region, and for the war against al-Qaida.

VOA: standard.2009.10.15

"It may not be until maybe a year, or two years from now before we fully understand the impact of the deal-making that was done, in order to secure these voting blocs in places like Qandahar,Helmand, where the insurgency has really taken control, and where the government is the weakest and it has the weakest bargaining position."

VOA: standard.2009.08.03