Word: effective
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...only is there no consensus on the value of Harvard's telephone services, but the confusion may only increase with the recent renegotiation of Harvard's long-distance contract with MCI and with the 1996 Telecommunication Act, which takes effect...
...which is intended in part to deregulate long-distance service across America and to help subsidize telecommunications hook-ups for local libraries and schools--may create an unforeseen side effect: higher rates for Harvard students...
...haven't noticed any effect like a decrease in crime, but I think it's a good idea," he says. "Seeing them in the dining halls helps develop a relationship between students and the police department...
...with the sort of arrogance that I had always thought had been the exclusive preserve of the Apartheid-era bureaucrats: "That's just to annoy our American guests," she said. The insult of the picture, coupled with the injury of the secretary's comment, had combined to produce an effect that was perhaps more powerful than she had realized or even intended...
Some will recall that soon after being released from prison by former South African president F.W. De Klerk, citizen Nelson Mandela did a fundraising tour of the United States. To tremendously understate the case, his effect upon American audiences was dramatic. Few could have been left unimpressed by Mandela's uncanny strength of spirit after 27 years in prison, an amount of time spent under conditions that would have wholly sapped a lesser person...