Word: effect
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Some analysts speculated that Deng had ordered the crackdown under pressure from hard-lining Politburo members in exchange for the right to pursue his modernization program. The new campaign has already had a visible effect on the democracy wall. Last week only one poster defended human rights. The others called for nothing bolder than catching up with the West by the year 2000-in weapons and industry, of course...
Other studies, out last week, suggest that those gains are exaggerated. An N.A.M. analysis of the Commerce figures concluded that after-tax earnings, adjusted for the effect of inflation on depreciation and inventories, rose only 10.9% from the fourth quarter of '78. Meanwhile, New York City's Citibank separately calculated that real earnings from operations over the whole year rose only 2½%. Said the bank's Monthly Economic Letter: "Despite glowing earnings reports, many U.S. corporations are scrambling desperately to hold even against the inroads of inflation...
Enforcement of the state ERAS varies from negligible in Virginia to considerable in Pennsylvania and Massachusetts. But in gen eral, says the Civil Rights Com mission, the effect "has been one of substantial strides toward equality," achieved in an orderly way. Some results...
...deficiency, it made one even more painfully aware of the repetitious nature of the show, its lack of directionality. Significantly, the largest hand of applause was for a blues number sung without frills in the second act, and yet the biggest laugh was reserved for when another special effect lowered from the roof stuck and had to be raised and lowered three times during black-outs. It was not so much the lack of talent of the singers which was upsetting, but the lack of 'razamataz', the lack of style and charisma to put it across. Furthermore, this lack continually...
Apart from the main shocks and spasms of violence, numerous small touches--a subtle darkening of light or deadening of sound--all carry their quiet effect and chill. Some of the best things in both films lie in the casual and exact use of particular locales. In Assault, the desolate quality of a faded section of Los Angeles is captured perfectly in the disconsolate look of a parking lot, a few haggard palm trees, and a grim, sloping street, and there is a similarly good, throwaway treatment of leafy suburban lawns in Halloween...