Word: effected
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...dialogue about drinking and driving," Winsten says. "A host will offer a couple a drink when they arrive at a party and one of them will say, `No thanks, I'm driving.' We are only asking them to do it occasionally, but we hope the cumulative effect will be significant...
...revisit one of its most controversial and opaque rulings. In a 1984 case from Pawtucket, R.I., the Justices upheld the constitutionality of a town-supported creche in a display that included reindeer, Santa's house and candy-striped poles, saying the overall tableau had a "secular purpose" and "effect." Ever since, lower courts have struggled to apply what has come to be ridiculed as the "reindeer rule." At issue: how much secular camouflage is required to sneak a publicly sponsored Nativity scene past the First Amendment bar on an "establishment of religion...
...many emotional ups and downs in Diebenkorn's work, although he certainly does not feign his calm. He finds the world too enjoyable to be detached from it. Life in Southern California (and a durably happy marriage, now in its 46th year) has had the same kind of stabilizing effect on Diebenkorn that the Cote d'Azur did on his great mentor, the subject of his most impassioned reflections, Matisse. This is apparent in Diebenkorn's figurative drawings of the '60s, and transparently clear in the Ocean Park abstractions from landscape that absorbed him from 1970 through to his move...
This success led Gray to lobby Congress for changes in housing laws giving tenants the right to buy their homes from the government. The law went into effect in 1987. Prominent Republicans, including Ronald Reagan, flocked to her cause, but Kimi Gray is no conservative ideologue. Her success depends on Great Society programs such as job training to drive home traditional conservative values. "We want to bring families back together, restore our pride and respect," she says. Congressman Jack Kemp, another fan of Gray's who co-sponsored the 1987 legislation, calls tenant management a "synthesis of New Deal programs...
Network executives deny any cause-and-effect relationship between the staff cutbacks and greater permissiveness. True, standards-and-practices people no longer read every script or attend every taping. But shows are still vetted by program executives, who alert the censors to potential problems. "We changed the mechanism, but we did not change the standards," says Alan Gerson, who heads the remnants of NBC's standards division. Indeed, most of this fall's bolder shows were written and reviewed before most of the recent cutbacks...