Word: effect
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...issue by going public. He authorized Cairo's semiofficial newspaper al Ahram to publish the text of the peace treaty, apparently in an effort to show Sadat's suspicious Arab colleagues that Egypt was attempting to bargain for the good of all the Arab states. The immediate effect was to prompt the U.S. State Department to release the official American version of the draft to the press (see box). Washington also released the text of one annex to the treaty, dealing with future diplomatic, cultural and economic relations between Israel and Egypt. As it turned...
...between 1974 and 1977, Europe lost $30 or so on every ton sold. The overall deficit last year was about $3 billion, with the nationalized British Steel Corp. accounting for $1.6 billion of the total. The French industry, saddled with a $10 billion debt?Europe's highest?was in effect taken over reluctantly last September by the government. West Germany, Europe's biggest steel producer, has lost the least (about $625 million), perhaps because in the past three years it laid off the most workers...
Snyder and his co-workers discovered in 1973 that the nerves of the brain and spinal cord contain specific sites to which opiates must bind in order to produce their effect. Morphine and similar drugs fit into these so-called opiate receptors like a key into a lock. Once in the lock, the drugs are able to dampen pain signals to the brain. Snyder then went on to map the distribution of the receptors in the brain. Kosterlitz and Hughes expanded on the research. They wondered why the body should evolve receptors for foreign narcotics; perhaps the body produced...
...Historically, the board has taken the position that intensive drills and coaching doesn't do much good," Holloway said. "But in recent years more studies were done that show there may be some effect on the math section. Refreshing and reviewing math may be advantageous. In the verbal area, it doesn't do much good...
Adams House, the Crimson building, the Indoor Athletic Building, Memorial Hall and the Year dorms are locations likely to be used in the film, which is about the effect of the social and political upheaval of the late 1960s on the personal lives of three under graduates at Harvard...