Word: effective
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Inflation & Taxes. "I have always urged that wage increases should be measured by increase of productivity, and I think that there would be no inflationary effect [i.e., price increases] if they were measured by that criterion. We shouldn't be so prone to ... decry profits in our economy. We tax profits. We don't tax industrial activity as such. So, if you are trying to get profits down to zero you are going to have to find some other way of finding federal revenue, if we are going to run this Government, I assure...
...Authorize the Federal Government to "require as a condition of employment" that federal employees "shall not refuse" to answer questions about past or present Communist ties, thus overturning the effect of the Cole v. Young case (TIME, June 25, 1956), which limited federal loyalty inquiries only to employees holding "sensitive" jobs...
Present state Zoning Enabling statutes forbid city ordinances that "prohibit or limit" use of property for non-profit schools and colleges and religious institutions. The effect of the proposed Senate bill 236 would be to deny this exemption to certain kinds of institutions, including colleges...
...screenplay for Dante's Inferno. "That requires a lot of research," Behrman replied. "Oh, no," said Wurtzel, "you can see the silent film." Behrman's most recent screenplay is the new Ben Hur: "there are 126 camels and 126 writers, and they all have about the same effect on the picture...
...Stepfather, who is the play's raisonneur, draws a few morals from his position inside his story, which only serve to indicate that Pirandello is in doubt about the difference between a profundity and a platitude. But the Stepfather's long speech, to the effect that the Characters are more real than the "real" actors, is subtle and intriguing, and so is the dramatic embodiment of this theme in a great entanglement of paradoxes: the Characters are really actors who pretend to be characters demanding to be acted, the Actors are really pretending to be other actors pretending...