Word: effected
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...EFFECT "inspire self-esteem" "promote self-esteem...
...only trying to torpedo the Human Genome Project but was also maneuvering to become the Bill Gates of biotech. Just as Gates leverages his monopoly in computer operating systems to dominate other areas of the software industry, Venter may someday control information about the human genome--which in effect is the operating system of humans. That would enable him to hold sway over the burgeoning, multibillion-dollar business of creating drugs, diagnostic tests and other products based on human genes...
...comes out of this show looking clever and sometimes more than that. His sculpture Fall '91, 1992, is a figure of a woman, 8 ft. high, in a red suit, done with slightly more detail and verisimilitude than a window dummy but with much less than complete lifelikeness. Its effect is to wrench your sense of scale out of kilter: far away, with no real humans near it, it seems close to you; then you realize how big it is, and it takes on the threatening and remote aspect of Big Momma, as though you, the viewer, were no longer...
...work is a series of one-liners, and these depend for their effect on what all one-liners need: a punch, a certain concision. Without that, they straggle. Told in outline, the plot--if you can call it that--of his short film Fashions sounds at least notionally amusing. A fixed camera stares at a rather mannish-looking model standing on a turntable, wearing an outfit of Ray's design. She revolves once, and then we cut to the same model wearing a different dress. There are about a hundred of these changes in the course of the 12 minutes...
...year The Crimson, along with every national newspaper, reported on a domino effect of financial aid policy reforms taking place at Ivy League and other "top tier" private universities, including Princeton, Yale, Stanford, MIT and the University of Pennsylvania. Usually, Harvard would sit up and take notice of what their fellow Ivies and neighbors were up to. However, as the student body looked on hopefully with each announcement of yet another school's more generous plans, the Harvard administration quietly but firmly held the line and supported its own current system...