Word: effective
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...were a hot potato. "Many people don't want these bills because they think they are valueless and they're going to get stuck with them, so they're spending them as fast as they can," says clothing vendor Fabiola Espinoza. It has unintentionally created a bizarre stimulus effect on Nicaragua's beleaguered economy. "As soon as I get one of the plastic bills, I try to pass it on right away to someone else," says shopkeeper Gloria Romero. (Read a story from TIME's Archive about America's counterfeit bill problem in the 1930s...
...cutback has already had an effect. Pam Moffat, who has proctored exams at Harvard for the past five years, said she had always attended a three-hour training session at the beginning of each exam week. But this time, proctors said, Harvard did not offer returning Proctors training...
...asked her to publicly back their cause. A few months later, the student group organized a rally on May 1—international workers’ day—and amassed roughly 120 signatures in a petition to Faust. Harvard has a tendency to have this domino effect,” said Melissa Tran ’10, a member of the organization. “We really hoped that getting Drew Faust to publicly support the DREAM Act would encourage other university presidents to do so.” Faust’s stance on this issue...
...other big changes is that, for the first time in something like a decade, your husband is now working in the same city, always, that you live. What's that ... what has that change been like? What was the effect? It has been the greatest single benefit of this for us as a family. It means that we see each other every day. And that hasn't happened for most of the kids' lifetime, right, because it's not just this position. He was a state senator; had to run for that seat. The state senate is in Springfield...
...president hinted that he may ratify the reform blueprint if Ireland does - Irish voters turned down the treaty in a referendum last June and another vote is scheduled for the fall. (Since the treaty needs unanimous approval, the Irish rejection essentially blocks it from going into effect.) "The Lisbon Treaty is dead for the moment," Klaus said after the Senate vote. "Therefore, my decision on its ratification is not on the agenda for the time being." The president's followers in the Senate also plan to challenge the treaty in the Constitutional Court, the Czech Republic's highest court...