Word: effective
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...members of the Baltimore police department's K-9 Corps have a demoralizing effect on lawbreakers. Last year the three dozen dogs were credited with assisting in close to 500 arrests, but their greatest value, says Inspector Leo T. Kelly, is the "deterrent effect" of their mere presence on the streets. In the three years since the city's K-9 Corps got started-with two dogs-Baltimore has been one of the few big cities in the U.S. where crime rates have dropped...
...sandwiching in" two new floors and a mezzanine and utilizing waste space in the basement, the Architects Collaborative have in effect doubled the space in Boylston, Joseph Aspasquella, construction superintendent, explained...
Second, the affidavit requirement demands that the student swear that he is, in effect, not a conspirator. It thus treats academic personnel as a prima facie suspect group...
...effect has been that most students go into fields which they had studied before they arrived at Harvard, and areas like Social Relations, which are seldom treated in school, get very few of the new sophomores...
...result, Wilcox admitted, has been occasional half-joking complaints from Faculty members. But he is particularly concerned about the effect on students who come in without any real orientation and are immediately deprived of the opportunity to "find themselves" during the freshman year...