Word: effect
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bakke decision has had little effect on minority admissions to American universities, L. Fred Hargadon, chairman of the College Entrance Examination Board and dean of admissions at Stanford University, told a Faculty Club audience last night...
Congress must approve the proposed budget before it takes effect, and may modify part...
Experience in the community often has a radicalizing effect on these roseate idealists...
...butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure." On belief: "Religions are kept alive by heresies, which are really sudden explosions of faith. Dead religions do not produce them." And, "Miracles are like jokes. They relieve our tension suddenly by setting us free from the chain of cause and effect." Love receives a whole chapter. "When the coin is tossed, either Love or Lust will fall uppermost. But if the metal is right, under the one will always lie the other." The attachment of marriage is "a stream that, after a certain length of time, sinks into the earth...
...computers have no data either. With the Big Bang theory, says Jastrow, "science has proved that the world came into being as a result of forces that seem forever beyond the power of scientific description. This bothers science because it clashes with scientific religion-the religion of cause and effect, the belief that every effect has a cause. Now we find that the biggest effect of all, the birth of the universe, violates this article of faith...