Word: effect
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...Administration's new plan to keep people in their homes by reducing what they have to pay for their mortgages each month actually has a similar effect on "ownership" although that may not be apparent at first. (See pictures of renting a modernist home...
...difficulty of assessing a president who's just left office is, in effect, he's running against himself. It's particularly true with a polarizing president - it takes time for those emotions to cool. It takes time to get access to papers, it takes time for a president and his policies to be assessed against his successors, and to see how they deal with the same issues...
...Darwin’s is the biggest single idea in the history of ideas,” he said. “It’s one of the very few scientific ideas which has had a ripple effect beyond the sciences...
Harvard is both an academic institution and a business, but, in order to maintain its tradition of educational excellence and rigor, it must keep these two interests essentially separate. From the perspective of academics, creating new facilities in Allston will have a profoundly positive effect on the quality of scientific pursuits at Harvard, and that is reason enough to expand as soon as possible...
...Unconventional methods were used by both antiquity's weak and strong. In 332 B.C., the citizens of the doomed port of Tyre catapulted basins of burning sand at Alexander the Great's advancing army. Falling from the sky, the sand, says Mayor, "would have had the same ghastly effect as white phosphorus," the chemical agent allegedly used during Israel's recent bombardment of Gaza, not far to the south of ancient Tyre. A Chinese ruler in A.D. 178 put down a peasant revolt by encircling the rebels with chariots heaped with limestone powder. Accompanied by a cacophonous troupe of drummers...