Word: effective
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Eisenhower never really came to grips with the basic problems of presidential leadership. Still, historians will be generous to him. He did, at the end of a period of extreme political turmoil and bitterness, bring to the presidential office something of an irenic quality that enabled him to effect a healing of wounds and a reconciliation of the leadership of both parties...
...Administration is pledged to lead the U.S. from "an era of confrontation to an era of negotiation." However, few doubt that Richard Nixon will seek the counsel of men from both eras. His first two major decisions were, in effect, announcements that the new President would not be rushed from one to the other. He altered but preserved the basic plans for a dubious anti-ballistic-missile system. Even while concentrating on negotiations at the peace table in Paris, he continued to prosecute the war in Viet Nam at a cautious but undiminished pace. The task of defending those decisions...
...Sirhan Sirhan fully responsible for his actions when he shot Robert Kennedy? No, say the four defense psychologists and psychiatrists who have examined Sirhan; as a paranoid schizophrenic, Sirhan was, in effect, incapable of fully premeditating his deed or weighing its risks. Yes, says the prosecution, and to back up the contention, it is calling counterexperts of its own. Such disagreements are all too typical when psychiatry and psychology go to criminal court...
...petition had argued that the court was, in effect, granting legal immunity to anyone who was bugged in the course of espionage or counterespionage investigations. Indeed, he added, the decision might even "point the way for the well-advised person to obtain such immunity by simply making a telephone call" to, for instance, the Russian embassy...
...inverted seniority during contract talks in both 1964 and 1967 but got nowhere. The auto companies, which pay most of the bill for unemployment benefits (Ford's fund totals $80 million), fear that the idea would make production cut-lacks so costly as to be self-defeating. In effect, they complain, inverted seniority could force the industry indirectly to pay two men for one job. They also worry that the scheme might destroy incentive and strip plants of experienced workers...