Word: effective
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...Chinese to build their Great Wall, but given the choice, I for one would take the speech. Kennedy accomplished a number of quite valuable things in his life--specifically in programs for the disabled that helped the helpers of the disabled extend their education. The ripple effect of that sort of public service widens forever...
...some way, a life ended in youth may be superior to a prolonged existence subject to revisionism and conspicuous error. Death turns "potential" into realization; what one could have done becomes in effect what one did. If the outpouring of sorrow at Kennedy's death were driven by his family name, by his boyish, bouncy manner with the public, or by his good looks alone, one might be reasonably churlish in putting it down to counterfeit emotion. But the more one learns of his works, the things he accomplished with his time and money--the practical good sense of them...
...appointment comes at a time when officials from Harvard and Radcliffe are completing the legal merger agreement that will join the two institutions. The legal document was originally expected by July 1. Now, Armini estimates, it will be completed sometime this month and go into effect during the fall...
...appointment comes at a time when officials from Harvard and Radcliffe are completing the legal merger agreement that will join the two institutions. The legal document was originally expected by July 1. Now, Armini estimates, it will be completed sometime this month and go into effect during the fall...
...been a hit-or-miss proposition," says Gorman. "The new laboratory process will help scientists understand more clearly what are the genetic steps." This is important because cancer cells exhibit so many genetic changes that scientists are at present not sure which changes are cause and which are effect. The precise procedures used to create the laboratory cancer cells could help untwine the mysteries of the natural process. Don't expect a cure for cancer any time soon, though. "All cancers are not the same," says Gorman, "and so you can probably expect different genetic steps for different tumors...