Word: effect
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Meanwhile, Sadat offered a compromise proposal of his own. In effect, he suggested that the negotiators set aside the question of the West Bank for the moment and concentrate on Gaza. The West Bank is just too complicated and too emotional an issue for both the Israelis and the Arabs, he was implying, and Egypt was hardly in a position to negotiate alone on behalf of the West Bank Palestinians, while neither they nor Jordan's King Hussein was willing to join the peace process...
...Some clinics use an assembly-line system in which doctors perform operations within three minutes (a safe abortion usually takes about 15), do not administer anesthetics or do not wait for them to take effect, and race each other to see who can perform the most operations in a day. According to the investigators, Dr. Ming K. Hah of the Chicago Loop Mediclinic and Michigan Avenue Medical Center may provide the fastest and most painful abortions in Chicago. He makes a pencil mark on the leg of his scrub suit for each abortion and tallies them...
...moreover, one very special special effect: human flying. In Star Wars, audiences wanted to see space flights and talking robots. In Close Encounters of the Third Kind, they wanted to find out what flying saucers and extraterrestrial beings might look like. In Superman, they will want to see if modern movie technology can make a man fly convincingly. "The film stands or falls on whether the characters appear to fly," says Terence Stamp, who plays the villainous General Zod. "If they do, the picture is a success." By Stamp's definition, at any rate, the movie will...
...second category is compliance costs, which are what employers have to spend to meet the regulations, and the multiplier effect can be large. For example, the EPA's 1976 spending was only $416 million, but its rules forced industry to spend at least $7.8 billion. In a long and complex study, Weidenbaum estimated that total administrative costs of $3 billion in 1976 generated compliance costs that add up to a staggering $63 billion, equivalent to a hidden tax of $307 on every person...
...cost has risen sharply since then as business has found it progressively more difficult and more expensive to meet the tougher and tougher standards coming into effect. Small businessmen and big companies are only now beginning to feel the high costs of complying with far-ranging regulations like the 1975 Hazardous Materials Transportation Act and the 1976 Toxic Substances...