Word: effective
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...Their literary god was the poet Stephane Mallarme, who had conceived of poetry as a structure of words and absences: "To conjure up the negated object, with the help of allusive and always indirect words, which constantly efface themselves in a complementary silence." This was very close to the effect of Bonnard's still lifes and interiors, with their incessant qualification of color within color; their exquisite play of large, vague shapes and smaller, intensely worked ones; and their sense of the instability of perception...
...them. Behavioral geneticists have learned that identical twins reared together are scarcely more alike than identical twins reared apart. This and other data suggest that the "shared environment" of siblings--including the overall household atmosphere and child-rearing tenets that parents apply to all their kids--have little straightforward effect on personality...
...seems illogical that a group of money sharps acting half a world away could have any effect on the seemingly bulletproof U.S. economy. But the stock market's swoon--the Dow industrial index was off some 450 points in the past two weeks--is directly linked to the deepening trouble in Asia, which represents only 30% of American exports but about 100% of American worries. Cheaper Asian goods, made possible by currency devaluations, have caused the U.S. trade deficit to balloon: America is buying more from the Pacific rim and selling less. While that's good for companies like...
...Although Yeltsin told the country Chernomyrdin's appointment was supposed to "maintain stability," its effect may be the opposite: The prime minister wants to reverse last week's ruble devaluation package and is expected to drop Anatoly Chubais from his cabinet -- one of the few Russian politicians to enjoy any confidence among Western bankers. President Clinton, when he arrives at the Kremlin next week, may feel as if he's walked into the Mad Hatter's tea party. "Yeltsin is no longer connected in any sense to the solution to Russia's crisis," says Quinn-Judge. "He's very much...
...politics is literally the personnel system for democracy. We've got the finest democracy in the world, but it's also one of the most complicated. Not everyone needs to run for public office, but every time someone drops out of the system it means they in effect give their franchise to somebody else...