Word: effective
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Crimson hopes its optimism will carry through the week and have a snowball effect on the Bears and Lions...
...campus-wide referendum would have the dual effect of legitimizing the council and allowing it to spend the money in the way that would most benefit its constituents...
...that sweetened the tax break for software makers. The result will cost taxpayers an extra $1.7 billion over the next 10 years. That's ostensibly meant to encourage Microsoft and others to export, but Microsoft is already an aggressive exporter. So the tax break is in effect a bonus to encourage Microsoft to do something it already does...
...elongated, 33-year orbit of the sun, the comet travels as far out as Uranus, then back to within 91 million miles of the solar surface, passing close to Earth's orbit on both its way in and its way out. Like other comets, Tempel-Tuttle is, in effect, a dirty snowball that heats up as it approaches the sun and boils off some of its "dirt," which consists largely of particles, some pea size, a few the size of baseballs but most no larger than a grain of sand...
...rebellion persuaded the Indonesian military to drop Suharto and replace him with President B. J. Habibie. Student protesters pushing for accelerated political reform may find their actions have the opposite effect. Says Dowell: "A new uprising could actually frighten the military into thinking the situation is so unstable that they should be tightening their control rather than opening up to new reforms." And in Indonesia, the military's opinion tends to prevail...