Word: effective
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...proposals--to streamline the government and to provide congressional representation--are reasonable. Unfortunately, the President's plan to remake the city's local government may do more harm than good by permanently killing the chances of a genuine home-rule bill. The President's executive order will go into effect 60 days after it reaches Congress unless either house votes to disapprove it, and the danger is that this measure will be accepted as an adequate substitute...
...encountering--notably to civil rights legislation in the North--is the best proof that they have bite. Let there be no doubt about the proper liberal posture in these matters. It is to take pride in the accomplishments and in the great liberal thrust that carried them into effect...
...flow of men and supplies from North Vietnam, to knock out enemy main force units, and to provide a shield for the South." Although several weeks ago at Harvard Romney said he did not have the necessary information to comment on tactics, he has now, in effect, endorsed the President's belief that military aggression in the North is essential in bringing about a successful settlement. The only criticisms the Governor voiced were safe ones -- a condemnation of the original commitment of U.S. troops and an attack on the Administration's lack of frankness...
Retailers especially hope that the return of warm weather may finally bring out shoppers who have been staying away from stores. To woo them even more, Washington economists believe that Lyndon Johnson may well forgo the 6% surtax on personal-income taxes that was supposed to take effect on July...
Persuasive though that notion may sound, it is doubtful whether such a system would appreciably alter the number or intensity of sex crimes. Lady Snow ignores a vast body of psychiatric thought that questions the cause-and-effect relationship between pornographic material and sexual aberration; sex-sick minds seem infinitely capable of being triggered into violence without the help of pornography...