Word: effect
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...number of cities. In return, Palestinian enemies of Arafat attacked the P.L.O. office in Paris, killing Arafat's Principal Deputy on the Continent and his Assistant. At week's end there were no signs that the bloodletting was over-and no clear answer as to what effect it would have on the Middle East peacemaking process...
Some airlines offer as many as 90 fares and discount packages, and no one knows how many are in effect on all the lines. In general, however, the international cut-rate fares fall into two price categories. The first is budget, which requires buying a ticket three weeks in advance and checking with the airline a week in advance to find out the departure day. The price: $299 round trip New York-London, vs. $764 for regular economy class. Or, for the same price, the passenger can buy a ticket on the day of departure and "stand by," hoping...
...been not fiscal but fecal. Unlike New York City's money troubles, the spread of dog excrement on the streets and parks long seemed insoluble and irreversible. Last week, after years of fruitless public clamor for an ordinance to ban canine littering, a state law went into effect that would levy a $25 fine on dog owners who let their pets defecate in any public area without cleaning up the act; the law applies to cities of more than 400,000. In New York City, 2,500 municipal workers, from cops to sanitation men, were authorized to issue summonses...
...Centrists, meanwhile, have been criticized by their key constituencies?conservative Catholics of the north, businessmen and private landholders?for following the Socialist line. The C.D.S. was forced, in effect, to make its move against Soares' government in order to fend off growing competition from other political parties, notably the increasingly conservative Social Democrats controlled by Francisco Sá Carneiro...
...couple of new elements: dismay at the lack of any sort of dollar-strengthening scheme to emerge from the economic summit in Bonn of the previous week, and a feeling that European leaders are making unexpected progress on setting up a unified Common Market currency that could, in effect, reduce the dollar's importance in international trading and depress its value still more...