Word: effective
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...Committee on Educational Policy's proposals for revising the upperclass curriculum were passed yesterday after a year and a half of study and debate by a 77-35 vote of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and will begin to take effect next fall...
...concession to the inadequacies of the organ, timpani were used with powerful and at times terrifying effect. But the apocalyptic climaxes were achieved at the price of turning the second chorus into a kettledrum concerto, and the theatricality of this novel compromise did not blend well with the rest of the performance...
Some Faculty members pointed out that the proposals will have little effect on their departments. Gilmore stated that the major changes that would result in the History Department include the addition of Junior tutorial for credit and a test at the end of the Sophomore year...
...Wynder and Lemon to conclude that heavy cigarette smoking and hard drinking are indeed major factors in lung or mouth cancer and in hastening death from atherosclerosis (hardening) of the coronary arteries. "We propose," they said, "that smoking, though not causing atherosclerosis as such, adds to the already damaging effect of atherosclerosis upon the circulatory system." As for air pollution, they noted that more than half the subjects in both groups studied lived in smoggy parts of Los Angeles. Hence, they argued, air pollution by itself is probably not a major factor in lung cancer, though they conceded that...
Curtis plans no immediate changes in the magazine, will leave Canadian-born Publisher Eaton and President-Editor Austin in their present jobs. Says Eaton: "We're very happy about the whole thing. In effect, we will be a subsidiary of Curtis...