Word: effect
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...nation's stark unpreparedness for the military offensive launched against Germany in August of that year. With this ! story Solzhenitsyn mixes snippets from contemporary newspapers, a succession of official documents and a series of "Screens," scenes described as if they were intended for a film script. The overall effect of this avalanche of information is daunting indeed...
...comparable facility at Los Angeles' Good Samaritan Hospital, where Dr. Richard Marrs was prepared to supervise its implantation. Much to the couple's surprise, Jones refused, arguing that the consent agreement signed by the Yorks gave them no rights to the embryo outside his institute's jurisdiction. In effect, Jones contended, the Yorks have only four choices: they could have their embryo implanted at the institute, donate it to another couple, offer it for experimentation or destroy...
...company with many conservative Protestant groups, opposes all in vitro fertilization. Nonetheless, the Yorks have received moral support in their suit from the Right to Life League of Southern California. "Howard Jones has no rights in this matter," says president Susan Carpenter McMillan. "He's playing God -- in effect saying 'I created this life, so I can decide what to do with it.' But he only provided the tools, not the materials...
...hostility of this place certainly had its effect," Collins said, referring to the recent budget and tax debates. "We appreciate the support we've had in the Senate and hope it will continue...
...argue it either way about who will win the coming legislative battles over abortion and what effect those battles will have on politics at large. My bet is that the repeal of Roe (especially if it is completed by the court next year, as seems likely) will awaken and politicize social-issue liberals the way Roe itself energized conservatives 16 years ago. From 1973 until recently, abortion mattered a lot more to the antis than to the pros; that is already starting to change. The new politics of abortion will also put many Republican politicians in the sort of bind...