Word: effective
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...verdict may hinge, in effect, on which of two tapes the six male and six female jurors find more compelling: an audiotape of a phone message left by Jackson for Peter Lund, the former CEO of CBS, stating she is Cosby's daughter and wants to discuss "how this will affect CBS if I go to any tabloids," or a videotape of the backstage party that followed that final shoot of The Cosby Show, showing Cosby with his arm draped around Jackson. "However much Mr. Cosby is beloved by the universe," says Lynch, "if this young woman has some reasonable...
...rock. Pushed ever so slightly upward, the rover gently bumped into the rock and began trying to climb it. As one of the rover wheels began rolling up the side of Yogi, sensors aboard Sojourner detected a tilt and shut down the little vehicle, leaving it hung up, in effect, on the rock...
...fen/phen. The FDA approved fenfluramine and phentermine more than 20 years ago, but the drugs' synergistic effect has never been vetted in a large-scale clinical trial, and the FDA never gave its blessing to their combined...
Well, we have our five- and 10- and 30-minute speeches all the time, and their principal effect is to dull our senses. Can anybody remember a single Saturday presidential radio address? A single State of the Union response? Or, for that matter, a single State of the Union address...
...earlier this week to reject a law that is aimed squarely at his upstart Russian flock. Even Congress has gotten serious, passing legislation Thursday that would withhold $200 million in U.S. aid if the bill is signed into law. But that $200 million carrot may have precisely the opposite effect. Yeltsin endures constant carping that he is too often the marionette of cash-rich Western governments; if he rejects the bill now, even citing constitutional concerns, it will appear to Yeltsin's critics simply that he has taken a bribe. Faced with that quandary, Yeltsin gave Moscow a wide berth...