Word: effective
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...After years of unchallenged dominance of the party, moody, long-faced Giuseppe Saragat, 59, twice Vice Premier of Italy, was seriously threatened by 36-year-old Matteo Matteotti, whose only program was unification after the elections. Matteotti did not explain how Social Democrats could win votes by, in effect, promising to become Nenni Socialists right after elections...
...country near the Cambodia border. But if the Communists had hoped to disrupt the Colombo conference, they had failed miserably. Dancing an exotic Brazilian samba to the music of a New Orleans jazz band at the Cercle Sportif that evening, an Indian economist announced happily, "The bombs had no effect whatever on our conference. This city is simply full of life...
Even before the strike began, the government's plans went into effect. Municipal bus and streetcar drivers who had planned to cripple their vehicles by removing vital parts were frustrated by marines who began riding with them hours before the deadline. During the strike, most offices and stores stayed open, restaurants and movie houses operated, newspapers appeared on schedule...
...look into charges that some of the 52 pipelines owned by 36 major oil companies, which signed a 1941 consent decree, compete illegally against independent oil companies that pay to use pipelines. Sample complaint: that pipelines pad their rate base to pay excessive dividends to their owners which in effect amount to rebates on carrying the owners...
...College Entrance Examinations Board has voted to allow schools and colleges to divulge the results of their tests to high school students. The new ruling, which will take effect in December 1958, breaks a long tradition of secrecy dating back...