Word: effective
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Tumors & Goof balls. Whitman's bloody stand profoundly shocked a nation not yet recovered from the Chicago nurses' murders. One effect was to prompt a re-examination of U.S. arms laws and methods of handling suspected psychotics (see boxes). There was a spate of ideas, some hasty and ill conceived. Texas Governor John Connally, who broke off a Latin American tour and hurried home after the shootings, demanded legislation requiring that any individual freed on the ground of insanity in murder and kidnaping cases be institutionalized for life. New York's Senator Robert Kennedy proposed that persons acquitted...
...democratized" by increasing the number of the Supreme Soviet's standing committees from three to nine-which in substance meant nothing. Kosygin revealed no fresh policy to cope with Russia's lagging economy; instead, he disclosed that the new five-year plan, scheduled to have gone into effect last January, was still not ready, possibly because of wrangles over a new pricing structure designed to permit limited fluctuation in response to supply and demand, and to provide salary incentives for better work. It has long been suspected that old-style planners have been dragging their feet on Libermanism...
...Doptone, based on the Doppler effect, transmits a narrow beam of very-high-frequency sound into the abdomen, detects fetal life and heartbeat after the tenth week of gestation, with out harming the mother. It also pin points blockages in peripheral arteries, as a guide to surgery...
...peak of 995.15. The Big Board's new flattened-out index (TIME, July 22) slipped one point to 45.29, or 2%. The Dow-Jones rail average also hit a 1966 low of 220.26, a fact that immediately led some pessimists to recall a Wall Street adage to the effect that when industrials and rails establish new lows in tandem, it is a sure sign of a bear market...
Penalized. The immediate effect will be to raise consumer prices in most Common Market countries - although, paradoxically, the underlying aim is to increase output and lower prices. Under the agreement, subsidies are supposed to encourage efficient producers and penalize less efficient producers, so that prices ought to fall in the long run. But the short-run effect is bound to be inflationary, and French Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville complained: "One cannot pretend that, from the economic standpoint, what we have done is entirely defensible...