Word: effective
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...less than the service chiefs and their partisans on Capitol Hill want. House Armed Services Chairman Mendel Rivers insists that defense spending will have to go up by still another few billion. On the first day of the new Congress, he introduced a $3.8 billion bill that in effect would begin construction of a new Navy. The amount is nearly triple the funds available for shipbuilding this year...
Elder said that he did not know what effect the decision of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences would have on the Divinity School decision...
...know that we could conceivably be standing quietly on the moon staring at the earth or even staring the other way. "History" is intriguing to paw through because of the illusion it creates about cause and effect; it tells us that one event led to this second event which finally determined that memorable catastrophe over there. But the philosophical meaning of an experience can't be comprehended by dropping it into a historical chain. We must understand it as part of the flow, a drop in the flood of every sensation surrounding...
Houthhakker is also known for his contributions to statistics and consumer economics. He is the co-author of "The Analysis of Family Budgets" with S.J. Prais. His other works have examined consumer demands in the world markets and the effect of government policy on commodity markets...
...contrast between the horror of reality represented by the sniper and the melodrama horror of movie reality represented by Orlock. At the end, Orlock takes Bobby, knocking a gun out of his hand with a cane, asserting a potency he had thought nonexistent. Although ambiguous, the effect is one of total release: we are still in a movie, and in the movies the reality of melodrama always triumphs, as we always knew it could in real life if only given the chance...