Word: effective
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...internal bickering and corruption. Members of Parliament openly sold firearms permits in the streets. Last year a partnership was uncovered between an Indian textile merchant and President Ismail Azhari's twelve-year-old son. For weeks before it was overthrown, the ruling coalition had been in effect a caretaker government, after the powerful Umma Party had healed a split between its traditionalist and progressive wings. The man in line to become Prime Minister had been Sadik Mahdi, 33, a progressive, development-minded politician who had made a promising start on solving the Sudan's problems during a brief...
...past several months, any Dane over 16 has been able to indulge his appetite for pornography to his limit-in books, films and still pictures that display everything from conventional copulation to group sex. Judging by what all this permissiveness has done to the pornography business, the effect on public morals in Denmark has been downright socially redeeming...
...said he spoke to members of the NCAA rules committee last spring in Omaha and heard no opposition to his request that the ruling be dropped. Park assumed that they had followed his suggestion. He said he only learned a few weeks ago that the rule was still in effect...
...media has lately become more crucial than ballot-counting in determining who wins elections. Campaigns are packaged into commodities that candidates may purchase from election market analysts; TV dispenses public policy on a county-by-county basis. This could theoretically make for moral neutrality, but its practical effect enables the moneyed candidate to come into more living rooms as man-of-the people...
...letters said that Steinberg "has shown more than cursory interest in our thoughts and reactions to the problems studied, in effect inviting us to a more active participation in the study of history...