Word: effect
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...institutions has on people who are already desperately afraid for their own futures. It is one thing to see a neighbor lose a home. It is another to see companies which have been at the heart of the American business world fall apart in a matter of months. The effect of watching titans fail is as traumatic to the average person as the loss of his own job. Another job will come along, at some point. Citigroup will never come back...
...European ones. It helped to drive the export boom of the past five years but left them more vulnerable to the crisis. Western banks have lent $1.6 trillion to Eastern Europe, but the crisis could see them pull back yank credit lines from their local subsidiaries, triggering a domino effect of collapsing financial institutions...
...concert's big special effect, when the brothers pick up large hoses, hold them at their waists and - I'm not making this up, ask anybody - squirt jismatic spumes of white gooey stuff into the audience. The Jonases may have vowed to remain virgins till marriage, but they can have simulated sex with the girleens in the Garden. And the fans can end the evening feeling both clean and sticky...
Faced with giving up benefits, the UAW will conciliate but not placate management, which strikes some Americans as uncooperative. But its so-called legacy costs, won fairly at the bargaining table, have big emotional value for the UAW. It's what behavioral economists call the endowment effect, says Lipsky: the UAW values what it fought for - even maligned work rules - much more so than workers who never had the benefits. So they are not going to give up anything without a fight. In mid-February, the union actually stormed out of negotiations with GM over reducing the company's retiree...
...Gray’s emotions, in the process rendering his measured words overly dramatic. In one such moment, Ain Gordon choked up while reading Gray’s journal entries detailing his slip into mental decline. Instead of successfully conveying the subtlety of Gray’s emotion, the effect was laughable.As with any story with such a dark and well-known ending, “Stories Left to Tell” always ran the risk of being overdone, but Gray’s sense of humor grounded the play. In one monologue, Gray asks his aging father piercing questions...