Word: effective
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Class is rarely openly discussed, but has a profound effect on academics, extracurriculars and social life. For some, Harvard is the great equalizer. For others, it's a fairy-tale land that distorts the inequalities of American society...
...industrial competitors have made stunning strides in energy efficiency and independence. In Japan the high cost of oil imports--5.5% of GDP in 1980--forced industry to restructure. By 1990 oil imports were 1% of gdp. Put another way, Japan produces about three times its 1975 output with, in effect, the same tank...
...percentage of cars exceeding the speed limit, before and after new laws went into effect in Texas and California, was monitored with photo radar by American Traffic Systems. Yikes! Before After...
Result? Those who keep their minimum-wage jobs will be better off. And those who lose their jobs will be desperately worse off. It is the pay of those unlucky poor--not your pay, not mine--that will in effect be taken away and redistributed to those lucky co-workers who stay...
...rest in a field and his classmates to safety. He then called for help on a CB. "I believe that it was God who put the thoughts into my head." DAVID BRISTOW, 33; RIVERSIDE, CALIFORNIA; attorney When the three-strikes-you're-out law went into effect, experts predicted a case like this. Bristow had been a rising star at a county district attorney's office, but then he refused to prosecute a case that could have sent a man with two prior felony convictions to prison for 25 years to life for possession of a minuscule 0.23 gram...