Word: effected
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These are heady days as well for the U.S. dollar, which has risen 4% against the West German deutsche mark since the beginning of the month. The run-up is a side effect of rising interest rates, which the Federal Reserve has allowed to climb as a means of preventing inflation. But the U.S. and most European central banks decided last week to restrain the dollar by intervening in the currency markets. Reason: U.S. progress in narrowing its trade deficit is likely to be hampered by too strong a currency, since it increases the prices -- and reduces the competitiveness...
...During the first term, such nostrums were handy tools for trimming some obsolete domestic programs and reducing marginal tax rates. But when Reagan reached those goals, he lacked intellectual material for a second act worthy of the first. Here another of his weaknesses came into play with devastating effect. Throughout his career his detached management style made him depend heavily on his senior advisers. After his 1984 electoral triumph, his fatigued White House staff needed relief. Instead of reorganizing it himself, Reagan allowed his then chief of staff, James Baker, and Treasury Secretary Donald Regan to work...
...process, Nuoptix 3D, uses regular cameras and delivers a normal picture. The illusion of depth is created by different-color lenses in the glasses, which transmit the image 16 milliseconds slower to the right eye than to the left. One catch: to get the 3-D effect, there has to be constant motion on the screen. So even if the game slows to a crawl, the halftime action will be fast and furious...
...response to incidents like this, Congress has banned employers' use of polygraph tests, voice-stress analysis and other electronic methods to screen current or prospective workers. The law, which went into effect Dec. 27, exempts government agencies and such workers as armored-car guards and employees who have access to restricted drugs...
...Office of Technology Assessment to determine whether such tests are dependable gauges of integrity. "There's a tremendous disagreement about whether you can even measure honesty," says Wayne Camara, who develops testing standards for the American Psychological Association. But no one disputes that when honesty is lacking, the effect on business can be extremely expensive...