Word: effects
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...seminars in effect came to serve as informal auditions, as the team searched for "Creative people who really understand that this is an educational program," Lesser says...
Barrios, a lawyer and first-time candidate, said the country's booming economy has had little positive effect on many of Cambridge's poorer residents and called for greater attention to schools, child care and affordable housing...
...subliminal tape--even if the words were not audible. Nixon also had the alarming habit of talking about himself in the third person, which is an inverted variation on talking to oneself. In talking to oneself, one invents an interlocutor; Nixon, speaking of himself in the third person, in effect erased an interlocutor--himself! Consider another variation: Joan of Arc. It was not so much that she talked out loud to herself as that she listened intently to the voices in her head...
...this case, SK Securities entered into a currency-swap deal with Morgan in early 1997 whereby SK Securities in effect borrowed U.S. dollars and invested them in Thai baht. But within a year the baht plunged in value, from 25 to 48 to the dollar, and the Korean firms couldn't cough up the dollars to repay Morgan. They subsequently sued Morgan in New York and in South Korea, claiming they weren't properly advised of the risks associated with derivatives...
Sinatra lived the music at every tempo, the sad soul of it as well as the brash, brassy swing. Or maybe his need to graft his life onto every song he sang was an unintended effect of his artistry, a scramble to find personal corollaries for every melody he molded, every lyric he bent to his own will and purpose...