Word: effective
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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However, the poor showing may have a negative effect in terms of the team's national ranking. Harvard may have squandered some of the points it earned with voters in its victory over highly ranked Massachusetts last weekend...
...hurt Monday, so once we knew we had to move up I think it had an effect on our practice," co-captain Philip Tseng said. "Everyone knew we had to step up with the injury and that got us going...
Solomon explained that such details as word choice and the way quotes are used in news reports can have a dramatic effect on the slant of articles, citing examples in which news publications identified artist Karen Finley by a performance in which she smears her body with chocolate because of its sensational nature...
...Nicks; no artist successfully reworks her material. While this is fodder for lite-radio DJs (You can hear them breathlessly plug the tribute: "Can you believe it's been 25 years since Rumours came out? Let's hear the Goo Goo Dolls rework one of our favourites!"), the ultimate effect of Legacy is to leave us wondering what to do when it hovers closer to desecration than celebration...
...Those are the figures. Here?s the spin. The NRA says that any report looking at the effect of ?guns and guns only? is ?worthless as a study of violence.? The medical community calls it an epidemic. ?If the United States had eight times the rate of disease than other rich nations, the people would be up in arms,? said Dr. Rebecca Peters of Johns Hopkins University. ?This would be a public health emergency.? Whether the guns or the people pulling the trigger are responsible, one thing is clear: We?ve got a whole lot of killing going...