Word: effective
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rate, the solution adopted by the committee and the Dean was a direct response to student discontent, was enacted quickly, and will probably have a salutory effect in prodding firms to think twice about committing noticeable hiring abuses...
...argument immediately raised by the committee's request concerns Harvard's general policy of avoiding positions that could be construed as "political." Yet HUAC's chilling effect on free speech--in this case, the freedom of students to associate legally with whom they please--would seem to transcend this objection...
Because no scholarly work has been done in the problem of upward mobility as it affects men now in their thirties or forties, it is impossible to say with confidence how this will effect future patterns of leadership in China. Yet one can speculate that there must be a growing sense of frustration among large numbers of third- and fourth-echelon leaders who have few really important policy-making responsibilities. Moreover, given the advanced age of the Politburo members, the near future may well witness many new top leaders with only the most limited experience in the problems of decision...
...parties or coalition of parties which have taken over power in some of the states will be able to do any better than Congress. In West Bengal and Bihar the parties constituting the coalitions make strange bed-fellows and it will be a miracle if they are able to effect harmonious execution of their agreed upon programs. Even if they do, the situation in India is not likely to improve radically within their tenure. It has arisen out of deep conflict between totalitarian economic planning and a democratic political order and will only improve with time and with drastic changes...
...goddess could clear up the minor personality adjustments so necessary to effect a union between the sportive Atalanta and her Lacedaemonian lad, and the ever-permissive Diana is perfectly prepared to sling a miracle or two in the aid of a good cause. The problem is the goddess's designs on King Tenintius himself. One glimpse at Fingleton's magnificent visual characterization of Diana--he looks precisely like one of the more grotesque 19th century caricatures of Britannia--and you understand the unfortunate monarch's dilemma...