Word: after-effects
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...Another after-effect of Kosovo's independence is Moscow's rallying of its hitherto reluctant CIS partners against the West. Oil-rich Azerbaijan, for example, had long begun inclining towards the West, but may be pushed back into Moscow's orbit because of Nagorno-Karabakh, a province that broke away in the 1990s and has de facto integrated with Armenia. Last week, for the first time in years, Azeri and Armenian forces clashed in a full scale fighting in Karabakh...
...official view towards the Soviet Union is becoming too costly to maintain. There is a certain stage at which open hostility and cynicism begins to pay diminishing returns... Perhaps the current American reaction of automatic skepticism towards everything that Russia does or says or promises is a natural after-effect of the Great Awakening, the days when the U.S. first recognized the meaning of Stalin’s smiles. From an unjustified good faith in Russia’s intentions, America leaped into fear and a deep contempt for the new enemy, instead of assuming a proper attitude of caution...
...course, CityStep isn’t the only service group—or extracurricular club, for that matter—to forge bonds as an after-effect of its institutional borders. It’s just one of the best at advertising that...
Brown's coach John Anderson says he's scared about playing Harvard today, an after-effect of the devastating thrashing the Crimson gave to a favored Brown contingent last year...
...evidence of Birmingham's shallow writing that he can present the foregoing statement about Ivy girls uncritically. The masculinization of the Ivy girl is a result of a tough competitive atmosphere, a perhaps undesirable after-effect of subjecting women to a man's education. The strident, supercilious tone of various girls' remarks about Ivy boys amuses Birmingham, when perhaps a more adequate response would be horror. Many educators now feel that the Ivy girl's schooling is just building her up for the great letdown to come, when she is forced to play the woman's part. And many parents...