Word: effective
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Bosnia's cease-fire now appears to be in effect everywhere except in the Sanski Most area of northwestern Bosnia. "U.N. officials say the town itself was quiet but fierce fighting could be heard to the east and north, indicating that the Muslim and Croat allies may be trying to capture Prijedor, about 20 miles to the north," reports Alexandra Stiglmayer from Sarajevo. "Prijedor is of major symbolic value to the Muslims because in 1992, Serbs brutally expelled the Muslim population from there, committing some of the worst massacres of the Bosnian war." The area is also of strategic value...
Nate S. Becker '98, who bikes to class from his room in Pforzheimer house "a couple of times a day," said the new rules will not have a large effect on his biking routine...
Different minority groups tend to bring different perspectives and opinions on politics and government to the government department. Such a heterogeneity of opinion helps to stimulate discussion and debate, a must for any graduate program in government. In effect, without the affirmative action policies so heavily criticized by The Weekly Standard, the government department could never have obtained the intellectually diverse student body that helps make it an outstanding graduate department...
Under the government department's current policy, middle-class whites and Asians indirectly subsidize the education of affluent minorities. Their tuition helps pay for the department's many expenses, thereby allowing the department to award generous financial aid packages to under-represented minorities. In effect, the department, like some modern day Sheriff of Nottingham, steals from the poor to give to the rich. We urge the government department to correct this inequitable policy by rewarding financial aid for all admittees solely on the basis of need...
...eager to mine the potential for film-flammery as he was to design the wondrous gizmos that make his movies one big notions shop. His ingenuity was utterly American; he had a tinkerer's obsession to learn how things work and how he could make them work to comic effect. This was Keaton's world: everything goes wrong; everything moves perfectly...