Word: effective
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Triantafillou then voiced concern that pursuing this matter could adversely effect churches and other institutions that are also exempt from property taxes...
...Probably the jury is still out on that," he says. "It is unclear what political effect this will all have...
Lowell residents said the mailing had the opposite of Wishnatsky's desired effect...
...essentially a scientific one. Yet in more than a decade of claims and counter-claims, lawsuits by the thousand and cash settlements in the millions of dollars, actual science has played an almost insignificant role. Women who say they've been harmed insist there's a cause-and-effect relationship between leaky implants and major immune-system disorders; manufacturers swear their implants are safe. But even though the FDA finally ordered the devices off the market in 1992, neither side has offered much proof for its position...
...would not swim in the mainstream because it was too polluted. These old strictures, to be sure, were a self-imposed double standard rooted in the gloomy conviction that blacks would never get a fair shake from racist America. But unfair as they were, the precepts had the salutary effect of encouraging blacks both to do their best and keep to the moral high ground...