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A survey of City experts found that more than half believe the probability of a short-term high-impact event was "very high" or "high".

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Robert Winnett 2011

"Government and research councils' funding wants you to test hypotheses and produce very specific, short-term high-impact results, " said Chris Newman, one of the researchers from the university's Wildlife Conservation Research Unit WildCRU who will be making the presentation.

BBC News - Home 2011

For the most part, though—and for most but not all of its nicely compact, 112-minute running time—"Super 8" serves as a showcase for the style of humane, richly detailed and relatively unhurried filmmaking that made those Spielberg fantasies what they are, for a way of building and layering drama that has largely been replaced by the quick-cut, high-impact frenzy of contemporary summer offerings.

'Super 8': Old Format, Fresh Thrills Joe Morgenstern 2011

Once a year, I teach a course at the University of California Berkeley campus about social entrepreneurship fancy talk for trying to improve the world by building smart, leveraged, high-impact institutions of change.

Jonathan Lewis: My Three Favorite Things at Stanford Jonathan Lewis 2011

His surreal, high-impact signature style is instantly recognizable and in high demand.

John Gascot: Celebrity Flash: Interview With Mike Ruiz John Gascot 2011

She loved the physicality of the punching bag, the visceral, high-impact smack that drained her of stress, and so she punched away like there was no tomorrow.

Lorraine Devon Wilke: Oscar-Winner Lisa Blount Is Remembered... "As Is and Still Loved" Lorraine Devon Wilke 2011

Within minutes of arriving back home, Kirby discovered just how valuable a high-impact media appearance could be.

The Panic Virus Seth Mnookin 2011

The data can then be relayed to coaches on sidelines to help them evaluate how a player is performing, or whether he should be removed after absorbing one too many high-impact hits.

Pick Up the Phone, NFL: The Future Is Calling Matthew Futterman 2011

We can't imagine that a high-impact, patently commercial facility such as the new Beavers stadium -- with for-profit alcohol sales on top of everything else -- could be shoe-horned into what the drafters of that condition meant by a public park.

Jack Bog's Blog: June 2009 Archives 2009

She loved the physicality of the punching bag, the visceral, high-impact smack that drained her of stress, and so she punched away like there was no tomorrow.

Lorraine Devon Wilke: Oscar-Winner Lisa Blount Is Remembered... "As Is and Still Loved" Lorraine Devon Wilke 2011