Word: effecting
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Dukakis and Keverian spoke over the weekend and said they plan to consult other officials this morning to effect a compromise...
Landscape art makes use of the environment to sensitize people to their surroundings, Mayman said. "Part of [the project] is to make people aware of what a fabulous space the Quad is. It has a huge effect on your lifestyle," she added...
None of the therapists had treated her. Yet they speculated, according to the Globe, that Mrs. Dukakis' difficulties resulted from "taking on her husband's emotional burdens as well as her own"; they implied that the Governor is repressed and in effect made him the culprit in her illness. The psychologists also said he too needed therapy to help his wife. One even suggested that Dukakis resign his office (his term runs through 1990) to aid his wife's recovery. After the board acted, some of the psychologists said they had been misquoted or their remarks had been taken...
Gimmicks? Of course. About $4.6 billion in deficit reduction comes from allowing the across-the-board cuts triggered by Congress's failure to adopt a ) budget in October to remain in effect through the first week of February. By declaring the Postal Service's deficit "off budget," the number crunchers "saved" $1.7 billion. A similar bit of wizardry -- prepaying a $3 billion Pentagon payroll in the 1989 fiscal year -- "reduced" the 1990 deficit by that amount. Bush was in no position to resist the sleight of hand: the legerdemain was originally concocted by his budget director, Richard Darman...
Among the interviews he has given recently was one to Radio Moscow, which was putting together a story on Gorbachev's meeting with the Pope and its effect on ethnic republics within the Soviet Union...