Word: effective
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...showing their approval of politicians like Heinemann and Scheel, who both advocate a flexible approach toward the East bloc, the Soviets hope to influence the results of next month's national elections in West Germany. They are, in effect, suggesting that they would cooperate with a government of Socialists and Free Democrats to reduce political tensions in Europe. The implication, of course, is that Chancellor Kurt Kiesinger's Christian Democrats, who have ruled the Federal Republic alone or in coalition since its founding in 1949, are blocking progress along that line...
...Full Employment Act of 1946, which established the framework for a managed economy and created the Council of Economic Advisers. If the Environmental Policy Act becomes law, the result may well affect every imaginable special interest-airlines, highway builders, mining companies, real estate developers. As for the effect on federal agencies, Jackson predicts: "The law will immediately hit the Atomic Energy Commission's nuclear power program by requiring the AEC to curb thermal pollution. It will have an immediate impact on all defense programs-everything from the siting of ABM missiles to chemical and biological warfare. It will affect...
Coupled with Clark's death, that near-tragedy had a signal effect on Stewart. Off the track, the little (5 ft. 6? in., 148 lbs.) driver is all Scottish charm; he wears Savile Row suits and affects shoulder-length locks. When it comes to his profession, however, he is all caution and conservatism. The Belgian Grand Prix was canceled this year largely because of his argument that the race would be too dangerous on wet roads. He was among the first Grand Prix drivers to use the six-point-contact seatbelt, and he introduced the idea of remote-control...
...good start with the student body. He then requested a written self-appraisal from each department, getting response from 285 faculty and staff members. This netted him a 4,400-page report 16.3 inches high, all of which he read and used to good effect...
Thus many of the tactics Heard has used at Vanderbilt could be applied to Columbia with good effect. There is one exception: if the 7,062-man Columbia faculty and staff were to produce written job appraisals as detailed as those submitted to him at Vanderbilt, the assembled report might well be 109,027 pages long and 33 feet high...