Word: effective
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Plea for Sanity." Plainly, Hanoi hopes that by punishing Americans it would help dampen U.S. determination to prosecute the war - or at least discourage continued bombing. Actually, the effect would certainly be precisely the opposite, inflaming the American public and all but eliminating the domes tic dissension that Ho Chi Minh interprets as evidence that the U.S. will pull out of Viet Nam. Indeed, warned Georgia's Richard B. Russell, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, executions of American pilots would "bring about the application of power that will make a desert of their country...
...advantage of laws already on the books. Typical of these college representatives is Mark Ferber, 36, a Ph. D. in political science from U.C.L.A., who represents the nine campuses of the University of California. Ferber defines his job as mainly "just reading bills and advising the university on what effect they will have." Rowan Wakefield, who represents the State University of New York and its 58 branches, also advises campus officials back home on Washington trends, and speaks of "the sheer frustration of trying to keep informed on the huge federal programs in education...
Mortality Reduction. Defenders of the system contend that it is economically unavoidable. Pretesting, they say, is in effect prerating-a means of anticipating and then eliminating the shows likely to fail. This year 40% of the 1965-66 shows went down the drain, and the development price of replacement programming costs a budget-breaking $50 million. Audience Surveys officials claim that their system is 92% accurate; that is, their pretesting weeds out all but 8% of the shows that are destined to be unpopular. Yet most scriptwriters, performers and directors echo the sentiments of Producer Brod kin, who argues that...
...Soviet foreign policy regards its obligations as conditional," Avtorkhanov writes. "The Communists themselves will decide when the time has come to put an end to 'coexistence.' " His main authority, among many others, is a pronouncement of the Seventh Party Congress in 1918, still in effect: "The Central Committee is given the authority to break at any time all peace treaties with imperialistic and bourgeois governments and declare war on them...
Though many economists, including John T. Dunlop, David A. Wells professor of Political Economy, don't regard the guidelines as "an effective policy," the Administration won't let the idea subside to a dead letter. The Civil Aeronautics Board's attempts to make things easier on the travelling public during the strike by reshuffling air routes for example, has been interpreted by some observers as, in effect, saying to management, "Look, boys, we have the power to assign routes, and and if you give in to the union, who knows how they'll be assigned...