Word: effective
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...recognize the enormous effect from the college students' work in Cambridge," said Duehay, who serves on the National PBHA Advisory Committee. "But it is increasingly more difficult for students to work with the administration...
Jenkins introduced an amendment to this effect, which failed by a vote...
...stars were aligned, the polls plump with support, the money hovering, ready to land. And then there came Newt Gingrich, who slipped away from his handlers and arrived in secret on Powell's doorstep, bearing the flame of the conservative revolution and telling him, in effect...
...injecting HIV--however weakened--into millions of people who have never been infected. After all, they note, HIV is a retrovirus, a class of infectious agents known for their alarming ability to integrate their own genes into the dna of the cells they infect. Thus once it takes effect, a retrovirus infection--unlike those of viruses that cause measles, smallpox and any number of other diseases--is permanent. While some retroviruses are benign, others can strike without warning. Some remain hidden for years, only to trigger disease later in life when the immune system starts to flag...
...voice, he clicks a button. Scientists, meanwhile, are monitoring his brain activity. Using a special imaging technique called PET scanning, they take series of pictures every 10 minutes. Later, by matching the timing of the button clicks with the snapshots--744 in all--they get what is, in effect, a photo album of active hallucinations...