Word: effected
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...good enough reasons to sacrifice American lives. What began as a defensive force to protect Saudi oil has grown into a 400,000-person military presence that's ready for war. And millions wonder why Bush has injudiciously refused to wait for the very sanctions he proposed to take effect. It's not hard to see why we're apprehensive...
...indeed one does. The international embargo, when truly supported by member nations, is the only weapon the United Nations should ever have to apply against a nation that is not actively engaged in a shooting war. The idea that the past four months of embargo had no effect is naive at best and deliberately misleading at worst. Even a completely secure operation could not expect to substantially undermine Iraq's ability to function so soon...
...installing individual meters is too costly, the University could consider a policy in effect at several other schools and levy a special annual fee on users of electrical appliances (something like $5 per computer, $15 per stereo or microwave, $25 per television, etc.). Random inspections (the same ones that root out illegal poster-hanging methods) and steep fines for evaders would suffice to enforce payment of the fees...
...interested in is completely different from the astrology known to ordinary people: the prediction of what will happen to you because of the stars -- do this and don't do that. Now I completely look down on that part of astrology. The astrology I'm concerned with is the effect of the stars on marine life, on the human body, on agriculture, and this section of astrology is like a science. There are those who write books about this and the effect of astrology on the human mind, human behavior, the woman's cycle and so on. This is what...
...Bennett's view, forming a partnership with Colombia's Cali cartel was a lucrative business opportunity. His main supplier, a drug lord known to him only as "Oscar," was in effect the chairman of the board of a multinational enterprise. Bennett saw himself as chief executive officer of the California subsidiary. He had an associate, Mario Villabona, who had moved from Colombia to California in 1983. Villabona, a protege of Oscar's, amounted to the California president...