Word: effect
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...There’s a quote in the old Masters handbook that says something to the effect of: Allow something once, and it’s precedent. Allow it twice, and it’s tradition. I suppose this would be classified as a tradition,” said former HoCo Chair Omar Abdelsamad...
...shape of a liquid, pour them into a container, to ‘fill,’” said Pope.L in a talk before the performance. “Mine either spill over or peter out.” If the same metaphor is applied to the effect “Corbu Pops” had, the performance splashed the container off the table. Placed in a corner of the Carpenter Center lobby, the set was a large and angled board painted with a ghostly cliff face of melting mouths, eyes, ears, and noses. Melancholy organ music played...
...addition, constantly projecting our lives outward has the effect of diminishing our ability to engage in private contemplation and develop sincere personal thoughts—in other words, to be alone. Many seem to find solitude so uncomfortable that they feel compelled to share their thoughts with a mass audience. As I write this article, Facebook statuses inform me that one boy in my network “is napping” and another “is hungry.” Clearly, both are in reality dedicating time to grooming their technological image...
...path of multiple-implantations because he was under pressure to up his success rate. To keep to the Fertility Clinic Success Rate and Certification Act of 1992, that rate must be reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention annually. Steinberg says that after the law went into effect, fertility centers implanted more embryos per cycle and there was an explosion in the number of multiple births. ASRM responded by urging its members to stop the practice and multiple births declined dramatically as the number of embryos used went down...
...second-guessing the staffers now, warn the Agency veterans, Feinstein's investigation will have a "chilling effect on people who are asked to do risky things for this administration," says a former senior CIA official...