Word: effective
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...this, Yeltsin's pneumonia seems to have produced a striking side effect: a collapse of confidence among his aides and top supporters. When Yeltsin faced surgery last fall, his entourage declared its support for the man and expressed enthusiasm about the future. But when pneumonia was diagnosed in early January, "a lot of the President's supporters and aides said, 'That's it,'" recalls a Yeltsin adviser. Some prominent supporters are quietly distancing themselves from the President; others are gravitating toward people like Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov or Alexander Lebed. There have been some nasty bursts of political infighting within...
...truth, the backcourt was aided by Brown's decision to come out with a zone defense, in effect daring Harvard to pass-and-shoot. But the Crimson was able to shoot from the outside and the Bears learned that playing a zone meant that a six-foot guard would be covering the 6'8" Grancio--the team's most proficient three-point shooter--on the outside...
...states to set eligibility and care standards, similar to the approach spelled out in last year's welfare reform. Clinton now argues that block grants would be a demolition of the national social safety net. TIME's John Dickerson says that the governors' outcry will have a limited effect at this point in the budget battle: "It hurts Clinton a little, because the Republicans will pick it up as a nice cudgel to bash the President. But if Democrats and Republicans want to balance the budget, the governors aren't going to have much...
When the dead King Hamlet himself finally does appear, he wears pale blue contact lenses, which make him look more frightening than the smoke would suggest. But King Hamlet's unfortunate run-in with Bausch and Lomb makes little sense and loses its effect when the living King Hamlet appears during one of the many flashback montages later on--wearing the same lenses and looking just as ethereal and possessed as he did when dead...
According to Hagen, the recent death of Markham Professor of Government H. Douglas Price had a "domino effect" on the department, creating problems as other professors shifted to cover Price's duties...