Word: effective
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...state legislators' base pay to the median household income in Massachusetts. 2 This law would establish a voluntary campaign spending limits that would reward participating candidates with state funds. 3 This law would reduce the state income tax rate on interest and dividend income. 4 The law--currently in effect--restructured the electric utility industry. A no vote would undo the changes. 5 Should the state representative vote for removal of a nuclear reactor on Albany Street? 6 Should the state representative vote for legislation stimulating increased production and availability of affordable housing for the middle class and low-income...
While Pennypacker in the only dorm which hastaken on a character similar to that of one of thenonrandomized Houses, the other Union dorms aremarked by a clustering effect...
Kindred says she believes she and her roommateswere paired more for their shared interests inmusic and sports although she speculates that racehad some effect on the decision...
...pervasive pattern of Microsoft's using its monopoly on PC operating software--Windows--to coerce other companies to do its bidding in a broad array of other business relationships. "It's not necessarily any one contract but the pattern of conduct over the course of time and the cumulative effect that the contracts have," says University of Minnesota Law School dean E. Thomas Sullivan...
More broadly, the fires may signal a last wheeze of radicalism within environmentalism. When radicals lose arguments, they burn things, thereby rendering themselves unable to effect real change. Earth Liberation Fronters forsook the demands of democracy (reason, persuasion) when they formed the loose-knit movement in 1992. Some say they were angry that their mother group, Earth First!, wouldn't promote sabotage. Others theorize that Earth Firsters orchestrated the split to deflect blame for "monkey wrenching," as these tactics are called, from the main organization. Whatever the case, Fedor says the ELFs are experienced monkey wrenchers. Last year they allegedly...