Word: effect
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Kennedy-Durkin Proposal is "taking the (Energy Project's) recommendations and putting them into effect," Kenneth Hughes, a staff aide on Kennedy's Joint Economic Subcommittee on Energy, said yesterday...
Eric Chaisson, assistant professor of Astronomy, said yesterday the increased use of coal will enhance the "greenhouse effect," which describes the trapping of heat into the earth's atmosphere...
Virtually nothing in the Carter program would immediately produce, or even save, a drop of oil. The only element that takes effect promptly is a presidential order limiting imports this year to an average 8.2 million bbl. a day. American oil companies almost surely could not find much more than that to bring in even if there were no quota; imports so far in 1979 have averaged only 8.145 million bbl. a day. For 1980 the daily limit will be set somewhere between 8.2 million and 8.5 million bbl. Because the recession in the U.S. economy has begun, imports probably...
Perhaps so. But Psychiatrist Arthur K. Shapiro of Manhattan's Mt. Sinai Medical Center points out that the placebo effect may also be influenced by attitudes of patient and doctor toward drugs and, perhaps more important, toward each other. In fact, says Shapiro, who has collected hundreds of the "useless" nostrums over the years, patient confidence in a physician may be a kind of placebo too, increasing chances of improvement...
Mayakovsky was so used to reluctant audiences ... For the Briks, crowded at the table in their small dining room trying to keep their eyes on their teacups while a towering, disheveled poet recited loudly into their faces, the effect would have been overpowering whether they liked it or not... For Brik the poem was a brilliant revolutionary statement. Osip took the notebook that 'The Cloud in Trousers' had been copied into and read the poem over to himself, while Mayakovsky smiled, stirred jam into his tea, and looked at Lili and Elsa with his large brown eyes. Suddenly...