Word: effect
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...With Superbad and Daytrippers, Mottola worked within the confines of a single day to great effect. Adventureland presents the bigger narrative challenge. He wants us to feel the sticky heat of summer days and the humming thrill of the nights, but he's required to move things along, plotwise. To this end, he's made poor James a virgin who is eager to be otherwise, allowing romance to lend shape to the summer. Will he find love with Em? Or the practically mythical Lisa P? (The fact that she is not Lisa, not Lisa Peters, but Lisa P, is perhaps...
...While the medications currently prescribed are already much safer in the short term than the ones commonly used during the study period, their long-term effects on health are still unknown, since they simply haven't been circulating long enough for any damaging side effects to have surfaced. But, Ho notes, "I always felt the side effects of HIV are greater than the side effects of the drugs." After all, he says, "the side effect of unchecked HIV is death...
Even the state seems to be shaking its hard-line stance. In January, it launched a Kurdish-language television station with a flashy Kurdish singer as main billing. "The state is recognizing, in effect, that Kurdish is a language and that it can be used to deliver a public service like broadcast," says Ahmet Birsin, of Gun TV, a local station...
...1980s, he concluded that they were not equipped to do the deals they needed to save their jobs. So after Harvard Business School, he set up a shop at the investment bank Lazard Frères that focused on counseling unions in leveraging their collective bargaining power to maximum effect. He pioneered the deals that took retirement and health benefits off company books and protected those benefits for workers...
...Reform of regulatory regimes. The crisis has made plain that the global economy is now so intertwined that a collapse of a financial institution in one country can have a knock-on effect around the world. The summiteers will discuss global regulation not just of conventional commercial banks, but also of other parts of the financial system like hedge funds - a key European demand. They probably won't get far - this time...