Word: effective
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What accounts for this decline in decorum? Airlines run a virtually free, open bar in first and business class, where some of the nastiest episodes occur. The booze is supposed to keep customers calm but may be having the opposite effect on some. Others say being deprived of a different vice, cigarettes, is a major cause of unruliness. No wonder Austrian Airlines has said it will offer nicotine-substitute inhalers to passengers once a soon-to-come smoking ban takes effect. Then there are those who blame the airlines themselves. Says Hal Salfen, of the International Airline Passengers Association: "Flights...
Manufacturing output and employment are being hurt by the rise in imports and drop in exports. But, Reaser points out, manufacturing "accounts for less than one-fifth of the total U.S. economy." Rising consumer spending has kept the other 80% growing, thanks in her opinion largely to the "wealth effect"--that is, the tendency of rising stock prices to make people feel richer and able to spend freely, even if many of their gains remain on paper. Reaser notes that retail sales rose strongly early in 1998 along with the booming market, faltered in late summer as stock prices dived...
...then ask, 'Am I prepared to impeach the President because after having admitted having engaged in egregiously wrongful conduct, he falsely described the particulars of that conduct?'" It was a lawyer's last stand, a final appeal to save a client from the congressional equivalent of indictment. In effect, Ruff was saying, "You know he lied and we know he lied. The only disagreement is what we ought to do about...
...Window decoration] has a great effect. It's really the only way of communicating to people walking down the street. It's extremely important," says Kristin R. Emerson, store designer for the Crate and Barrel located in Harvard Square...
...best for last. In 1998's final session of the Microsoft trial , Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson conceded what Microsoft has been saying for weeks: That the merger of AOL and Netscape could represent "a very significant change of the playing field" which "could very well have an immediate effect on the market." Jackson agreed to let Microsoft review the documents submitted by the merging companies to the Justice Department for approval, and also said he might allow Microsoft to request additional documents from AOL and Netscape to assist in its defense. "It is a major victory for Microsoft," says TIME...