Performance-related pay (PRP) will have a "catastrophic effect" on teacher recruitment and retention, the ATL says.

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How she came to suffer so many injuries with such a catastrophic effect is only known by the two defendants.

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Most of the residents knew it was there - but few thought it would have such a catastrophic effect on their lives.

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Should the United States now disrupt the British program due to its inability to supply D-5 missiles when and in the quantity called for by bilateral agreements, it could have a catastrophic effect on the viability of the U.K. Trident and severely strain relations between two key allied governments.

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He says that when an earthquake struck the island in 1999, a catastrophic ripple effect was expected, but the industry managed to regain its footing quickly.

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"The effect would be fairly catastrophic, " says James Watt, head of Asian Art at New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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The catastrophic earthquake and subsequent tsunami in Japan has produced a ripple effect on global business that reaches far beyond any seismic wave.

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