Word: effective
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...true that a presidential race is intrinsically exciting. It can easily excite frustrated radicals who want to make amends for voting Democratic in '64. But it has little to do with the price of potatoes, and the demoralizing effect of failure at the polls more than compensates for a brief splurge of excitement. To run an anti-war candidate for President in 1968 would be an act of consummate self-indulgence; most importantly, it would be a misapplication of what small energy the anti-war movement now possesses...
...alumnae gifts) outweighs any considerations of our wishes. She asked us to write a "well-worded" statement of why we think the question so important. We are doing so, but as far as we are concerned the importance of any question at a college should be determined by its effect on the students. We are asking for a shift in priorities: students over the budget. Jay Lockard Susan Levenstein
...reduction of its 55,000-man Army of the Rhine, long a drain on Whitehall's sterling reserves. At the same time, the Bundesbank agreed to refrain from converting U.S. dollars into gold, and promised to honor its purchase of $500 million worth of 41% Treasury bonds - in effect a capital import for Washington -through...
Lockheed's rigid-rotor design, in effect, makes the whole shebang a stable flying gyroscope. The concept-rigid blades attached directly to the rotor shaft-was tried and dropped in the '20s; experimenters found that when they tilted the rotor to change direction, the whirling blades would tumble their machines like a gyroscope gone berserk. Ever since, helicopter makers have sacrificed simplicity and speed by using flexible rotor blades mounted on heavy, complex hinges. Lockheed picked up the all-but-forgotten rigid-rotor idea in 1957-and found a way to handle it: the pilot's stick...
With this mistaken-identity murder, the novel ceases to be girl talk, and it is over before anyone really notices it. If there is a moral in this, and there probably is not, it is that old aphorism to the effect that women may be pretty choosy about whom they sleep with but will marry practically anyone...