Word: effect
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...winning congressional approval of greater U.S. aid to friendly governments in Africa. In addition, the White House thought a firmer approach to Moscow might improve chances for Senate ratification of a new SALT treaty. Of course, by heightening American suspicion of the Soviets, this strategy might have the reverse effect...
President Carter has threatened to veto the bill if it passes, but instead of fighting any price fixing, he has come forward with a halfway measure. It would pay subsidies to farmers and, in effect, boost sugar prices to 14.4¢ per Ib. This proposal would cost the public an extra $120 million in direct payments, plus possibly millions more to underwrite federal support if sugar prices fail to rise high enough to enable farmers to redeem their Government loans. The Administration proposal has so little support on Capitol Hill that no Congressman has agreed to sponsor it. Because...
...that, in practice, police can often find a judge willing to issue a search warrant, with slight justification. And search warrants do not prevent investigators from poring over all sorts of things while looking for the specific evidence they are seeking. Journalists are afraid this could have a chilling effect on sources, who might choose to remain silent for fear that their names would be found on a stray scrap of paper during a search. Edward W. Barrett, publisher of the Columbia Journalism Review, envisions a distressing scenario: "A newspaper in Blankville, Tenn., starts an expose of police corruption...
...Constitution's lack of effectiveness is obvious on two levels. First, as far as University-wide policy is concerned, the proposed Student Assembly would be a very loosely-organized forum and any consensus it reaches would have about as much effect on Harvard as that of a debating society. That is, it will simply create more resolutions and pretitions that Harvard will ignore...
...always shared its first-year experiences over meals in the Union. It fact, it has been ten years since the whole freshman class was housed in the Yard, and then it was only fresh men. "I was a freshman in the Yard when that plan was in effect," says Dean Fox, fondly recalling his freshman days. "If you compare the freshman experience at Harvard to that at other colleges, you find we spend a tremendous amount of time and effort on the freshmen," Fox adds, implying that he finds many positive aspects to his plan, which has become known...