Word: effect
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ronald Humphrey, 42, emerged in the testimony as a naive, lovelorn officer in the U.S. Information Agency whose lawyer insisted he never meant to harm the U.S. although he delivered Government documents to a foreign agent. David Truong, 32, a Vietnamese peace activist, said he simply wanted to help effect a rapprochement between the U.S. and his homeland...
...election will probably not have any immediate effect on the governing agreement between the Christian Democrats and the Communists so skillfully worked out by Moro earlier this year. The day after the results were tallied, in fact, all the major parties gave the government an overwhelming vote of confidence (522 members in favor, 27 opposed, 3 abstentions) for its seven-week-old antiterrorist decree. The measure raises the penalty for a kidnaping-homicide to life imprisonment and gives Italy's police wider arrest and interrogation powers...
...doubtful that any Bakke decision will have much effect in cases where judicial findings of discrimination have already been made. One example: Boston Federal Judge Frank H. Freedman's order banning hiring of white firemen until the percentage of blacks and Hispanics approximates their 23% ratio in the Boston population. Nor is there likely to be much impact on voluntary affirmative action programs that focus on equal rather than preferential treatment. Still, notes one Justice Department official, lawyers asked to help set up affirmative action programs are "telling their clients to sit tight" and wait for the Bakke decision...
...usually higher than that to emission problems. Owners believe that pollution control system failures will somehow improve gas mileage and engine performance, though Brown asserts that that would not be the case with the Eaton part. "As far as we can tell," says he, "it has no noticeable effect on engine performance...
Gossyplure won EPA approval after laboratory tests showed that it was harmless to humans, wildlife and vegetation and had no effect on other species of insects. (Standard chemical sprays used on cotton fields also kill insects that are beneficial to the crop.) It is conceivable, so to speak, that the bollworm could evolve immunity to its own sex pheromone-for example, by producing a different scent. But scientists could then synthesize the new pheromone and continue to control the frustrated moths...