Word: effective
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Judiciary Committees of both Houses rushed through an Administration "must" bill to ease the effect of the Supreme Court's Jencks case ruling that defendants have a right to inspect FBI files relating to testimony by a Government witness (TIME, June 17)-a decision that, said Attorney General Herbert Brownell, had brought about "a serious crisis in law enforcement." Under the Administration measure, the trial judge would examine the FBI material requested by the defense, turn over only the parts he considers relevant...
...that would slip through the air as smoothly as fish drift through water. They always failed. As the air flowed over the wing, it broke into curling eddies that dragged at the plane and drank up the engine's power. In theory, the scientists knew that this "burble" effect could be prevented by sucking into the wing a thin layer of air, and with it the incipient eddies. The remaining air would glide past the whole wing in smooth "laminar flow" (see diagram...
...Worse. Trouble is that there have been virtually no comparative studies showing how many emotionally ill women got better and how many got worse after an abortion-or after a normal birth. In the British Medical Journal, Psychiatrist James Arkle of Reading reported the effect in 18 cases where abortion had been considered but not performed. Three women had become psychotic during previous pregnancies, five had psychoses unrelated to pregnancy, and ten were referred for symptoms usually considered less severe, though three of these had become hysterical in previous pregnancies. A year after giving birth, the mental state of three...
...will get worse unless something is done soon. Many bankers argue that the Treasury should have moved much faster to keep U.S. Government securities rates in line with the overall money market. By hiking rates a fraction at a time, always too little too late, Secretary Humphrey has, in effect, guaranteed the failure of long-term issues. He has also increased the margin between Government and corporate bonds instead of narrowing it. On a straight interest basis, Government bonds paid as much as 2.37½^% in 1952 v. an average 3.42% for corporate issues; today, the highest paying Government bond...
...century and a half later the Massachusetts Assembly was to declare the Stamp Act "against Magna Carta and the natural rights of Englishmen and, therefore, according to the Lord Coke, null and void." And it was to give effect to this same manner of ruling that the U.S. Supreme Court itself was brought into existence...