Word: effective
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this: If you're awakened by a fire alarm at 6 a.m. tomorrow and the fire trucks arrive at your door, go to the firefighters and tell them "thanks." I don't what effect the words will have on those ever-present protectors, but I suspect, at a time when they grieve for their brothers in the fire service, a sincere acknowledgement will provide great comfort...
...sanctions since mid-1998 against UNITA's diamond dealing have had little effect. Canada's U.N. ambassador, Robert Fowler, head of the Angolan sanctions committee, now has two panels of experts investigating UNITA's sanctions-busting operations and searching for a way to plug the embargo's holes. Fowler plans to put expert monitors in key trading centers to identify gems that could emanate from UNITA-held areas. He will also put U.N. customs officials at points in Africa where UNITA might move diamonds, money or weapons. At the same time, human-rights and environmental lobbyists have been pushing...
...more affecting than the lovers' travails. As Parkis, the detective hired by Bendrix to follow Sarah, the enormously underrated British actor Ian Hart steals every scene he's in. His Parkis is bumbling and a bit obsequious, but somehow a pervasive pathos in the performance overwhelms the lesser comic effect...
...need to get involved in events and protests beyond the campus, with the issues that effect the world," McKean said. "Harvard students are particularly important to the movement because we can get publicity easier than other students...
...teams, mentors and collegiate metaphors does not erase the fact that consulting firms are populated by extremely ambitious and "overachieving" people. During my visit, everyone was on good behavior. But management consultants do not always feel valued, projects that involve tremendous amounts of work may, in fact, have little effect on a client decision-making and sometimes, ambition can mar the ideal of harmonious teamwork...