Word: effective
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After an unsuccessful attempt to smother the flames with a pillow, Grainger kicked the can of fluid into the fireplace and rang the alarm. "I expected the can to explode with a sort of napalm effect," he said...
...full power to hire and fire personnel, design the curriculum and spend centrally allotted funds. The plan has been approved by Mayor John Lindsay, and will be debated in the next session of the New York legislature, which must change existing state laws if it is to go into effect...
...precisely measurable are the more numerous cases in which women complain that they have developed migraine headaches since starting on the pills, or that previously rare attacks have become more frequent and severe. But enough such instances have been reported to convince physicians that there is a cause-and-effect relationship...
...World) seems to have kept a wary eye on the charts, inserting flaccid pop songs whenever the action flags. In such a child-centered zoo story, the animals, of course, should be the true stars of the picture. But Director Richard Fleischer has inserted a number of special-effect monstrosities whose obvious falsity helps to destroy the mood created by the real zoo denizens. The Sea Snail is laughably mechanical, and the luna moth, which propels Harrison home to Puddleby-on-the-Marsh, looks like a five-and-ten windup toy left over from someone's Christmas stocking...
Marks, Rupees, Eurodollars. One criticism U.S. businessmen do listen to-if not always sympathetically-is Washington's complaint about the effect of globalization on the U.S. balance of payments. "The European splurge," says Assistant Commerce Secretary for International Business Lawrence Mc-Quade, "was an example of American businessmen losing their heads about a market. Their massive investment triggered the voluntary payments program." Under this voluntary program, 625 U.S. corporations, including Jersey Standard, are making "special efforts" to repatriate income from abroad more rapidly and to borrow more money abroad...