Word: effective
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...this process was even alienating people [who have a significant interest in politics], I was concerned that it would have an effect on people with a marginal interest, the people the IOP is trying to attract," Markham said...
...short-sightedness is amplified by Harvard's disjunct schedule. The exam break that began yesterday creates, in effect, two mini-seasons, in which a single big win seems to make a season, and consecutive losses are a disaster...
Conservative accusers tell us that the anti-religious liberals' influence is considerable and widespread. Perhaps they worry over the liberals' anti-religious effect on members of the executive branch, such as our President, an active churchgoer who also consults pop spiritualists like Marianne Williamson and Anthony Robbins. Maybe the accusers refer to liberals' effect on the First Lady, who is known for extolling the many virtues of prayer. Or do they refer to the liberals' influence over the nation's courts, where obsessive secularism truly reigns...
This procrastinator may never attain the level of effortless diligence displayed by the GW. She may not even want to. However, exams are a time when this ignored element of the student population must effect a degree of transformation. So, GWs (you might never admit it, but you know who you are) who might catch a glimpse of a procrastinator making a worthy attempt at academic diligence--please, make no study break suggestions. Do not ask the procrastinator for notes, opinions, time or attention. In fact, just walk past and leave her to her books. After all, the procrastinator needs...
...main concern about this case was that it would exert a chilling effect on college journalists who are interested in covering controversial subjects and people," Roy said...