Word: effected
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...important that we give credit to the clerical workers," said Bozzotto. "We got the ripple effect of what they accomplished...
Liem's appointment, which took effect July 1, makes him the only acting master of the 12 houses who is a member of a minority group. During the search for a new house master this spring, minority students were vocal in their support of Liem...
...experts. Only about 15,000 Japanese -- most of them bird watchers -- belong to conservation groups, and the country does not have an extensive network of environmentalists, like those who monitor policies in the U.S. and Western Europe. The government's foreign aid programs, which can have a major effect on the global environment, are administered by roughly the same number of people who ran them when they were giving out one-tenth as much money...
...source of revenue for politicians who lack the courage to raise taxes. The problem is that the poor play quite as much as those who are better off and can more easily afford it. Mark Michalko, former director of the California lottery, disputes the idea that lotteries are in effect a regressive tax on the poor. "The vast majority of players are middle-income and higher," he says. Yet he concedes that "there is some small percentage of people in the lower-income brackets who play ((to excess)), and by definition it is going to be a higher percentage...
...spilled in the accidents. While all the slicks were much smaller than the 10.5 million-gal. spill of the Exxon Valdez in Alaska last March, the timing of the latest mishaps, which all ! occurred within a twelve-hour period on June 23 and 24, had a powerful effect. "The political impact of these three spills will be much, much greater than their environmental impact," said Richard Golob, editor of Golob's Oil Pollution Bulletin, an industry newsletter...