Word: effective
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...jury. But, wrote Burton, the old judge-as-screener rule "respects the interests of justice by permitting an accused to receive all information necessary to his defense." And the court majority "goes beyond the request of [Jencks] that reports be produced for examination by the trial court and, in effect, seems to hold that the Government waives any privileges it may have with respect to documents in its possession...
...Font's competitors-the court based its decision on Section 7 of the 1914 Clayton Act, to which Government lawyers had devoted only six pages of their 100-page brief and only perfunctory oral argument. Section 7 bars a corporation from acquiring stock in another, "where the effect of such acquisition may be [to restrain commerce] or tend to create a monopoly of any line of commerce." Ruled the Supreme Court (in the majority opinion written by Justice Brennan): the facts showed a "reasonable probability" that Du Pont's stock interest in G.M. "is likely to result...
...resignation, in effect, put the seal of completion on one more term of office, the longest spell (34 months) that Iraq's durable strongman had ever stayed in the Premier's post. Even if he relinquished office, Nuri would still be the dominant figure in Iraq. But he knew that Iraq's boy king, Feisal II, would ask him to try again, and Nuri would have a chance to form a new government, with a widened Cabinet. In office or out, the adroit, 68-year-old Nuri is the senior Arab statesman of the Middle East...
...traditional complaint against grades--the psychological effect of continual measuring--is noted here, but never becomes an important argument...
Nothing is more critical to this program than good teachers. When a professor who has the student's confidence criticizes a piece of work, if only for a minute, the effect is infinitely greater and more permanent than a lengthy treatise in red pencil at the bottom of a blue-book or essay. Perhaps the graduate student who writes there is a better critic than the professor; it does not matter, for the student doesn't know that, and the comment carries little meaning...