Word: effect
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Audience response to Frank's speech was generally positive. "I think what he was doing, speaking to constituents, has a very positive effect--politically, it's the smart thing to do," said Alexander Vasilyonok, a Cambridge resident who heard Frank's speech...
...Bush tops even Ronald Reagan in popularity (70% approval), a reversal of fortune that has plunged the out party into another of its periodic identity crises. Last week, in an orgy of finger pointing, party stalwarts from New York Governor Mario Cuomo to national chairman Ron Brown asked, in effect, Where are the Democrats...
...intelligence. They are reflecting how the world is," says James Patterson, chief executive of the ad agency J. Walter Thompson USA. If an ad features nothing but a herd of Caucasians, it can appear dated and stiff. The inclusion of a lone minority-group member has a similar effect. Says Ron Anderson, vice chairman of the Bozell ad agency: "Ten or 15 years ago, there was a sense of tokenism. Some advertisers would throw a black or Hispanic into an ad because they were sensitive to minorities. Now we use blacks and Hispanics to sell a product...
...eventual Palestinian state was too much of a sop to Israeli sensibilities to warrant acceptance. They are also concerned because the P.L.O. is excluded from direct participation. For their part, four senior Cabinet officials could not even agree whether to acknowledge the Egyptian proposal, since doing so would in effect admit that the Shamir plan had been supplanted. Insisting his own initiative must be answered first, Shamir's dour response to Egypt: You agree to the principles of our plan, then we can discuss yours...
After declaring the embryos to be children, Young in effect treated the case like a custody dispute, in which the overriding concern is the best interest of the child...