Word: effective
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...least one governor is paying attention to the revolution in Washington. Michigan Governor John Engler says his state is ready to take control of welfare, and is readying legislation to go into effect as soon as Washington grants states authority over the program. At a press conference, the two-term Republican announced a series of measures to put welfare recipients to work, including a key provision that requires recipients to begin looking for a job within sixty days of the start of benefits. Case workers would be required to help with logistics such as child care arrangements, but if recipients...
...their international interbank borrowing. After Iguchi spoke in court, however, the "Japan premium" nearly doubled for the more troubled Japanese banks. The premium had also edged higher after Leach revealed the existence of the Fed's agreement with Tokyo. The U.S. move had a double-edged effect--while it served to reassure financial markets of an emergency backstop for Tokyo, it also implied that Japan's banks must be in serious trouble...
...their retirement home in Heidelberg and talked with dozens of acquaintances. Her conclusion: emotionally crippled by an unhappy childhood, Speer was a frustrated romantic whose reciprocated love for Hitler--a sublimated, nonsexual but homoerotic devotion--blinded him to dark realities he chose not to see or hear. In effect, Speer existed in what the Dutch Protestant theologian Willem Visser 't Hooft has called "a twilight between knowing and not knowing...
...poseur whose influence is based solely on personality. From Spring in Fialta: "Lean and arrogant, with some poisonous pun ever ready to fork out and quiver at you, and with a strange look of expectancy in his dull brown veiled eyes, this false wag had, I daresay, an irresistible effect on small rodents...
...Fathi Shakaki, the leader of the Islamic Jihad. "The fact that the Israelis are adopting such tough measures indicates that there is extremely serious concern of a terrorist response on Israel," reports TIME's Jamil Hamad from the West Bank. "I fear, however, that the Israelis are underestimating the effect of the restrictions themselves on Palestinians. These measures may do more harm than good: they are building anger and frustration among the Palestinians, which could lead to violence and doom the peace process. Palestinians are asking themselves, 'What good is a peace if I cannot earn a living?'" The killing...