Word: effective
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...middle-class teenagers just say no. But it's unlikely to end the inner-city drug crisis. President Clinton, backed by bipartisan support, announced on Thursday a $200 million-a-year antidrug media campaign, launched with a TV ad depicting a teenager trashing her kitchen to illustrate the corrosive effect of heroin...
...recalled to active duty in order to be court-martialed. "The perception that the Army allowed Hale to retire and the comparison with the Gene McKinney case creates the appearance that officers of higher rank are more likely to get off," says Thompson. "That perception has a corrosive effect on the forces. The need to show both the rank and file and Capitol Hill that there are no double standards may create pressure for the Army to bring Hale back to face charges...
...problem for some people who are prone to diabetes. But, according to her 1997 study of 65,000 nurses, the greatest danger occurs only if those at risk also fail to consume enough whole grains like whole-wheat bread and rolled oats. Reason: cereal fiber has a counterbalancing effect that keeps insulin levels from rising...
...annual event (as have citizens' disbelieving snickers) since last spring, when, during a seasonal campaign against corruption, Yeltsin decreed that all government officials should declare their incomes and holdings. Intended to increase transparency at the highest levels of power and build public trust, the decree had the opposite effect. Nearly all the declared incomes were absurd. The oil-and-media tycoon BORIS BEREZOVSKY, then deputy secretary of the Security Council, put his net worth at $38,500. And just how transparent is Yeltsin being? Last year he explained that his income was modest (largely derived from royalties on his memoirs...
...prosecution of Internet obscenity is particularly suitable for federal resources," Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder wrote in a June 10 memo -- sent to U.S. attorneys and obtained by TIME -- which emphasized that no web site is too insignificant. "Prosecution of cases involving relatively small distributors can have a deterrent effect...