Word: effective
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...eleven-year-old boy of Jewish descent told the justices that after he read during the moment of silence, another boy asked him why. "And I told him that I didn't have to pray then and I didn't want to and then he said something to the effect that if I prayed all the time, maybe I could go to heaven with all the Christians when Jesus came down for the second time instead of, as he put it, going down with all the other Jews...
...over less agile competitors. After a series of bruising battles and mergers, the market for common carriers of electronic messages will quickly become oligopolistic or monopolistic. And just where the telecommunications reformers had promised to keep an open marketplace, fantastically wealthy businessmen will have colluded for exactly the opposite effect...
...committee aims to resolve the issue before the administration's original benefits plan begins to take effect this winter...
Desperate for relief, and facing the possibility of radical surgery, Trebilcock went to the Mayo Clinic, where Dr. William Sandborn offered an unusual treatment. He gave the 23-year-old college student a nicotine patch as part of a study to determine its effect on colitis. Normally prescribed to help smokers kick the habit, these patches release a predetermined amount of nicotine through the skin into the bloodstream, where it eases the craving for cigarettes. Physicians have known for some time, however, that nicotine also seems to quiet the symptoms of colitis. So, although the Food and Drug Administration...
...having no other value. The problem is more severe than that. If we cut that child off, are we creating a bigger problem? Frankly, I haven't thought it through. And it doesn't seem like all the experts on the Hill who have put it into effect for 30 years have thought it through either...