Word: effective
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Business School has instituted the only coed living plan at present in the University. Girls have been living in previously all-male dorms since Christmas, when the plan took effect...
...bottom, what is most distressing to the protesting doctors is the fact that some of their colleagues are making a lot of money out of abortions in London's private Harley Street hospitals and suburban nursing homes. For that, no effective remedy is in sight. One opponent of the present law wants to amend it by imposing a six-month residence requirement to quash the jet-set trade, but no amendment can take effect for three years...
Even with its obvious defects, the law has had an enormous effect on the attitude of the woman seeking abortion. While she used to appear in her doctor's office weeping, cringing and remorseful, she now walks in self-possessed, knowing that she has certain rights and confident of talking out her problem sensibly with her doctor. In a growing number of cases, she succeeds...
...Three years later, the Assemblies of God dismissed him for failing to appear at a church trial resulting from a Tennessee drunken-driving arrest, but Allen hardly seemed to care. The same year, he organized his own Miracle Revival Fellowship, which claims to be nondenominational, but has become in effect an independent sect, headquartered in Allen's own blossoming desert town, Miracle Valley, Ariz...
...option price. They were in disrepute for most of the years since the Depression because their volatile prices make them extra risky for investors. But warrants caught on again after LTV and Gulf & Western used them to pay for acquisitions. Issued in moderate amounts, warrants may have no significant effect on a corporation's finances. But Manhattan's General Host Corp., which has only 2.6 million shares of common stock, last month offered 14 million warrants in its successful fight to win control of Armour & Co., whose...