Word: effective
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...BEGIN? by Rudolph Brasch. An Australian rabbi has collected an intellectual's compendium of trivia dealing with the origins of countless things from trouser cuffs to Caesarean births to soap. The effect is as irresistible as peanuts at a party...
...fundamental problem, is the style of news writing itself. The standard, accepted style is to organize the news in a sensationalistic pyramid--facts starting out with the most dramatic and organized in descending order. Reston points out that, although this is advisable in murder stories, it has a distorting effect on foreign policy reporting...
Reduced Majority. Wilson's tactics brought bitter resentment in Parliament. As a maneuver to speed the passage of a wage-price freeze, Wilson attached the measure as a rider to an earlier bill that had already been debated in Commons. The effect was to bar debate there on the substance of Wilson's measure-which of course brought an angry outcry from the opposition Tories. Conservative Leader Ted Heath rose in the House to remind Wilson that, during last year's election campaign, the Prime Minister himself had described a wage freeze as "monstrously unfair" and "repugnant...
Giving in, the government flashed a temporary red light to enforcement officers, ordering that the edict take effect only against a few disreputable houses that employed minors or peddled dope. It was small solace for the trade. Complained one prostitute last week: "Attendance has fallen off. Clients fear they may land in jail." A madam with initiative-and style-was busy sending out notes to erstwhile customers: "I have the pleasure of informing you that I expect you at my house on Tocornal Street after 6 p.m. Bring a friend...
Swanger said that Theodore Sizer, Dean of the School of Education and the director of the program, "has said, in effect, that he would like it to continue." Plans are being made to reapply for another Federal grant, Swanger said, and a number of changes are being considered...