Word: effect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...papers deal pragmatically with each international crisis as it arises, refuse to accept the view that the U.S. is or can be in a dominant position. One major criterion for judging a policy: its anticipated effect on world opinion. This has sometimes led the Cowles brothers to argue that the U.S. may eventually lose more by taking a strong stand than by backing off a little under pressure...
...They have the bodies of women and the minds of children," Dr. O'Gorman says delightedly, "which was just the combination needed." On four-year-old Jane, for example, the effect has been startling. Jane entered Smiths last year, utterly demoralized by her well-educated but intensely demanding parents. She alternated between incoherent screaming and stunned silence, slept exactly two hours in her first eight days, required three people to undress her. The "continuous cuddle" given Jane by a nurse and doctor were unsuccessful-then Big Sister Maggie (mental age: five) took over. Jane went to bed with Maggie...
...Holy Rollers are banned in Italy on the last count, as their services are considered to have a "detrimental effect on the Italian psyche...
Obvious Threat. Unanimously the board resolved that Allen's series "seriously violates the moral and ethical standards of the teaching profession." The horrified educators deplored: "The effect upon children of learning that [Allen] was in fact a spy prying upon their privacy and using the special privilege of the position of teacher as a vehicle for sensationalism; the effect upon teachers when they learned that the exchange of confidence between educators . . . can no longer be safely indulged in; the effect upon a community of the realization that the teachers with whom their children sit may be consciously concerned...
...will eventually give Pan Am a big voice in its affairs. In a $16 million swap, the two lines will exchange 400,000 shares of stock, and Pan Am will get a two-year option to buy another 250,000 shares of National stock at $22.50 per share. The effect would be to give National a minor (6%) interest in Pan American, while Pan Am could gain 36% of National if it exercises its option...