Word: effect
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According to Grass, "literature has an explosive quality at its root, though the explosions literature releases have a delayed-action effect...How long did it take the European Enlightenment from Montaigne to Voltaire, Diderot, Kant, Lessing and Lichtenberg to introduce a flicker of reason into the dark corners of scholasticism?...But when the light finally did brighten things up, it turned out to be the light of cold reason, limited to the technically doable, to economic and social progress, a reason that claimed to be enlightened but that merely drummed a reason-based jargon (which amounted to instructions for progress...
...labor market's fluctuations also have little effect on Prudential Santa Ed Savage, whose holiday post is in demand whether or not stores are strapped...
Harvard officials seem to be unmoved that the effect of filling so much of the class with early applicants ultimately forces students to apply early, saying they are committed to accepting the most talented students whenever they apply...
...Medicare, Medicaid & SCHIP Balanced Budget Refinement Act was signed into effect, increasing funding for teaching hospitals from the rock-bottom levels set in 1997's Balanced Budget...
...their cholesterol and reduce their risk of heart disease and stroke. Now a study whose results stunned even the researchers shows that the same statins can reverse osteoporosis--at least in rats. New bone formation increased 50% in lab animals receiving statin drugs for a month, far exceeding the effect of today's osteoporosis options, such as hormone-replacement therapy and Fosamax. The true litmus test: trials on humans, which have yet to begin...