Word: effected
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Israel has grown up under the constant threat of terror attacks. Here to see a semi-automatic weapon or two a day is routine. Yet the security measures taken here have no effect on accessibility. Pilgrimage under Israel's control has always been a priority, and despite the potential dangers, one can approach and enter the holy sites like the Western Wall and the Dome of the Rock almost 24 hours a day, through metal detectors and under the gaze of sharpshooters. At first it is a bit shocking, to one used to the American fiction of invisible security...
...outbreak of violence is already having repercussions outside Albania's borders. Italy and Greece fear the turmoil will create a new influx of refugees, while NATO is concerned over the effect on its efforts to stabilize the conflict between ethnic Albanians and the Serb authorities in neighboring Kosovo. "The last thing the West needs now is for Albania to slip further into chaos, just as [the West's] hard-hearted policy in Kosovo appears to be containing that situation," says Calabresi. But there's little cause for optimism when opposition politics is conducted with machine guns and tanks...
Their tactic is one the White House employed to great effect last year during the campaign-finance scandal--the "prebuttal." The idea is to put forward information--even the damaging or not-so-believable tidbits--before the other side can, on the assumption that he who spins first has the advantage...
...during the Yom Kippur holidays. Four days later, Vice President Spiro Agnew resigned. Over the next 10 days, Middle East and Persian Gulf nations organized a total oil embargo against the U.S. because of its support for Israel. And on Oct. 20, one day before the embargo took full effect, came the Saturday Night Massacre. Nixon ordered special prosecutor Archibald Cox fired, Attorney General Elliot Richardson resigned in protest, and an honest-to-God constitutional crisis was born...
...Indeed, half of the 10 biggest drops in the Dow's history, both in percentage and point terms, came on Monday, which has been the worst day of the week for stocks over the past four decades. So what, other than coincidence, accounts for the infamous "Monday effect"? Several academics point to the preceding weekend, which often follows a shaky Friday. That's when individual investors--who do the majority of Monday trading--tend to ponder their investments and nervously peruse speculation in Barron's on Saturday and the big newspaper financial sections on Sunday before deciding to bail...