Word: effect
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...France and Italy in the early 1990s, Rhys says, "there was a big sag in the market when the scheme ended." That same prospect has angered some in the industry. Christian Streiff, boss of France's PSA Peugeot Citroën, warned such incentive schemes have an "inverse effect" - they essentially guarantee an implosion in the market once the subsidies stop. (See the best cars from the 2009 Detroit Auto Show...
...blind thing is certainly played for effect--just not the effect you might anticipate. Almost since their first meeting, in 1976 as students at Bamako's Institute for Young Blind People, Amadou and Mariam have billed themselves as the Blind Couple of Mali, and if the lack of an exclamation point reads as restraint, factor in that they often perform in diamond-studded sunglasses. Faced with a world that tends to view blindness and African-ness in tragic terms, Amadou Bagayoko (he plays a killer guitar) and Mariam Doumbia (she sings like an adoring aunt) go out of their...
...Massachusetts Governor Deval L. Patrick ’78 announced a 10-year, $1 billion life sciences initiative. But because no funds are specifically earmarked for stem cell funding, state officials said that the lifting of federal restrictions would have an unclear effect...
...worst kind of overkill. Take this stanza from “Underground Beauty”: “Inside, tiny sparkling / mineral, gypsum flowers, / lettuce and coral, shy trident / bats, fairy shrimp- / eggs which hatch after fifteen years.” Poets have used lists to great effect before. But unlike Gerard Manley Hopkins in “Pied Beauty,” a poem similarly concerned with nature and spirituality, Nilsson merely lists. The words above have no particular rhythmic quality; the enjambments do not aid the poem’s flow. This list style, prevalent throughout the collection...
...pistol that had not been locked away, as well as many rounds of ammunition, were missing, the police say. Germany's gun laws are relatively strict but registered competitive marksmen, hunters and collectors can acquire guns after their physical and psychological soundness has been ascertained. (Cover: "The Columbine Effect...