Word: effect
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...report went on to stress the abundance among foot-soldiers of short, well-balanced men who are heavily muscled and exceptionally agile. It admitted that strenuous training might have had an effect on the men, but maintained that a soldier's basic physique was more important than conditioning...
...uniformly acceptable and occasionally outstanding, as is the sound-track that Brahms unwittingly supplied. And, to make up for the puerility of the love scene, there are several short scenes of rare film sophistication. A tense evening meal combines brilliant writing, direction, and camera work to acid, ironic effect. However, from bedtime on, the movie bogs down...
...fortunate he was is shown by the fate of 33 New Jersey victims: 21 died, eleven had brain damage, only one recovered fully. Once infection sets in, no treatment has any effect on the progress of EEE - or, as the experts called it more often last week, EVE, short for eastern viral encephalomyelitis. The disease is even deadlier for horses and pheasants, but can be prevented in these species by vaccination. So far, no vaccine has been approved for general use in man. Best current bet for control of EVE: identify the mosquito carriers, such as Dr. Shope was collecting...
...commercial borrowing; New York banks boosted the rate they charge on broker-dealer stock market loans by ½% to 5½%. The U.S. Treasury, in its weekly rollover of $2 billion in short-term debt, had to pay a record 5.099% on one 182-day offering. Another dampening effect was the prospect of an increase in the 4% discount rate that the Federal Reserve charges member banks...
...House fight will be tough," the Committee warns in its pronouncement, but "letters from Harvard students protesting the affldavit will have considerable effect...