Word: effect
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Because the months of increasing violence have so hardened the positions of the Shah's enemies, the compromise could prove to be too little too late. The plan required him to accept the dictates of the long ignored 1906 Iranian constitution, and, in effect, begin to restore Iran to the constitutional monarchy it once was on paper. He would turn over control of the national budget to an appointed Cabinet. A panel of Shi'ite mullahs, his most vociferous critics, would be given the power to veto new laws that were not in conformity with Muslim doctrine...
...generation: Philip Cortelyou Johnson. The firm of Johnson-Burgee has become to American architecture what McKim, Mead & White was 80 years before: the voice of authority, flavored with luxury. Johnson's critics see him as a brilliant opportunist capable of adapting to any regime of taste: in effect, the Anastas Mikoyan of architectural ideology. Certainly Johnson has, with dazzling skill, traversed the whole range of 20th century manners: from the idealistic severities of the International Style (whose name, as an architecture critic in tandem with Henry-Russell Hitchcock, he coined in 1932), through various essays in neo-historicism, to Post...
...Armonk, N.Y., is like an assembly of delicately related fragments. One seems to be looking at a stage set that represents a villa. Instead of coalescing in the strong cubical masses of Italian country architecture, the walls are like screens, separated, undulating, shearing away from one another; the effect resembles painting as much as it does building, in its dematerialization and purity of effect-down to the smallest detail of a skylight...
...Cambridge. The AAU customarily picks up travelling expenses for U.S. Team members. Hogshead agreed that "three months is zero," but both she and Woodhead expressed some mild disappointment that the strongest U.S. team wasn't present. AAU officials and U.S. team coach Jack Nelson tried to downplay the effect of the suspensions on the meet by keeping no running team scores and saying things like. "Let's concentrate on the swimmers that are here." But you just can't rob a bunch of 14 and 15 year old girls of their team spirit; after Saturday night's finals, for instance...
These requirements will be in effect from the time the team is assembled until it returns home. Violations of the above may entail...