Word: effective
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Whatever the reason, the advent of this new element has had a profound effect on the baseball world. Players like ex-Yankee first baseman Don Mattingly have prolonged their careers and gained the respect of millions via their reputation as "solid clubhouse presences," whose diminishing productivity is offset by leadership effects...
...reliance on these impersonal person-movers furthers the atomization of life. A trip to the store provides little or no opportunity to engage in the civic life of the community, if there is even a community at the "heart" of suburbia. The automobile has had the doubly adverse effect of destroying small towns and villages from the inside, by clogging the streets, and from the outside, by drawing consumer-citizens out of the town square and into the strip mall...
Well, maybe. Clinton defined his success by claiming that Iraq's leader was now "strategically worse off." Most analysts say the practical impact on Saddam is minimal and any longer-term effect hard to gauge. More important is how Clinton scored in the ongoing U.S. vs. Iraq psychodrama. At home the President did just fine. He shut off carping about "fecklessness" from the Dole camp and forced his rival to declare support for the military operation. A TIME/CNN poll gave Clinton a 69% approval rating for his missile reprisal...
...child prodigies Jennifer Capriati, Andrea Jaeger and Tracy Austin, the w.t.a. has instituted new age restrictions: players 14 and under are barred from tour events, and players 15 to 17 will be gently introduced to topflight competition. Hingis, Kournikova and Williams turned pro before the rules went into effect, so they are exempt...
...rather than step into a conservative trap, also support an amendment offered by Senator Edward Kennedy that would guarantee gays equal rights on the job. Even some Republicans, like Senator Alfonse D'Amato, embrace the measure--which is being considered as a separate bill this week--which says, in effect, we will go along with this gratuitous marriage thing, but only if you are not using it as a smoke screen for wholesale discrimination against homosexuals...