Word: effective
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...King is at her best as a writer, she displays the same dignified control she first showed on television at her husband's funeral. Then her restraint underlined the horror of the days following her husband's death. Now her spare narrative has the same intensifying effect-particularly in the final section on the assassination. The book offers no particular analysis of the tactics of nonviolence. Her portrait of Dr. King is not drawn with an especially clear or unbiased eye; wifely loyalty often robs him of the humanity of having faults. Dispassionate reportage is not her real...
...prose. With apparent balance, she also shows how defense lawyers, instead of helping to cut through to moral essentials of the defendants' arguments, too often sowed confusion and sought the protection of sophistry and technicality. The least attractive result was Coffin's testimony to the effect that he was really helping, not hindering the draft, "because," as he explained, "turning in a draft card speeded up a man's induction and in no way impeded his induction...
Many Harvard scientists will have in effect up to 20 per cent fewer funds for this year's research projects...
...loss is due to a cut in the National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants and the effect of inflation...
...Olendzki, assistant dean for financial affairs at the Medical School, added, "Although we don't know how much the cuts will be exactly, it's obviously going to hurt and we're anxious about it." Olendzki said, "Optimistically, we'll be able to absorb much of the cut's effect...