Word: effective
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DECLARING that "responsibility begins at home," Richard Nixon last week announced a long-overdue series of measures to curb the rapidly growing crime rate in the District of Columbia. In effect, the President's plans are a pilot program for his Administration's promised attack on the nationwide crisis of violence in the streets...
...decision was evidently a consensus that such treaties are beyond reach, and that Israel is not willing to let the Big Four powers dictate a settlement. At any rate, the Cabinet decided to act now to ensure what it perceived to be Israel's vital interests. In effect, the decision meant that Israel has opted for the security of extended frontiers at the price of almost certainly forgoing any realistic hope of an agreed peace with the Arab countries...
...lubricating effect of long-chain polymers is also being studied in the U.S. In Dallas and Cleveland, the chemicals have been injected into sewer lines to speed the flow of wastes and thus increase the capacity of the disposal system. Dallas has reported a 2.5-fold increase in flow through a test line. California's TRW Systems has received a Navy contract to investigate the possibility of using long-chain polymers to make torpedoes run faster...
LIVE UPTOWN . . . WORK DOWNTOWN. YOU CAN COMMUTE BY ELEVATOR IN SECONDS. As its full-page newspaper ads suggest, Chicago's 100-story John Hancock Center is a most unusual building. The world's second tallest, the 1,107-ft.-high skyscraper* is designed, in effect, as an apartment house atop an office building. A forerunner of the multipurpose "vertical city" of the future, it also looks like a financial winner. As the first tenant moved in last week, the owner, Boston-based John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co., predicted that by next year the building will be producing...
Overpowering Effect. Now completed except for landscaping and the interior of some floors, the Hancock Center will bring 8,000 new residents and office workers-plus 1,000,000 visitors a year-into a neighborhood that is already congested with cars and people. Some Chicagoans complain that the massive building, designed by the architectural firm of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (TIME cover, Aug. 2), .has an overpowering effect on the far smaller buildings around it. Still, Chicago seems eager to utilize the space provided by the new skyscraper, as evidenced by the fact that 39% of its apartments...