Word: effective
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spell out a fuzzy picture of all they encounter. Operations can now be carried out in an environment that is virtually germfree. The new device may be as comparatively simple as a heart cart that contains everything from a cardiac pacemaker to a supply of oxygen, and can, in effect, rush the entire equipment of a hospital emergency room directly to a heart patient's bedside. Or it may be as vastly complex as the proton gun currently being used by Harvard Neurosurgeons Raymond Kjellberg and William Sweet...
...handling the case. While a jury trial is in progress, urged the committee, the court should also hold in contempt any person who makes an out-of-court public statement that is "reasonably calculated to affect the outcome of the trial and seriously threatens to have such an effect...
...effect, there was no one for her to sue. Italy is one of the 67 countries in which U.S. servicemen are governed by a Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA). Typically, U.S. officials retain jurisdiction over all persons subject to military law whenever their offenses are committed while performing their duty or against another American stationed in that country. The host country has jurisdiction over all other cases, but usually waives it even for serious offenses. Although SOFA provides U.S. tort liability when servicemen are on duty abroad, the .U.S. sailor who hit Mrs. Shapiro was off duty; although she could...
...Vorenberg's main concerns, for as he told a national symposium on science and criminal justice in June, "these decisions are made -- usually by conscientious people -- operating under enormous time pressure and with little or no information about the background of the offender or the likely effect of any particular decision that is made...
...right -- but, if so, he didn't know what it was. His position -- shared by officials all through the criminal justice system -- is like that of a retailer trying to decide whether to change his markup on goods or his advertising policy without having the means to test the effect on sales and profits...