Word: effecting
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Katherine Harris to accept manual recounts, but declined to give local boards guidance on chads. The court did, however, approvingly cite a 1990 ruling by the Illinois Supreme Court: "Where the intention of the voter can be ascertained with reasonable certainty from his ballot, that intention will be given effect even though the ballot is not strictly in conformity with the law." The Illinois high court examined 27 ballots with dimpled chads and held that eight of them were valid votes--enough to decide that election...
Having seen infants and animals respond well to homeopathic remedies, I realize that Jaroff must have blinders on to call positive reactions a placebo effect. Just because science hasn't found a way to measure something doesn't invalidate it. I hope we can recognize that healing occurs at many levels. SIDNEY VAELLO Georgetown, Texas...
...quickly. Before he could sell the consumers websites, Dash needed to go back a step: turns out that a lot of inner-city African Americans still didn't own computers. So DME's new goal became filling that need by selling low-cost computers in the urban marketplace, in effect acting as general contractor in the project to build a bridge over the digital divide...
...Xerox PARC (it stands for Palo Alto Research Center) is the kind of place that prides itself on overturning assumptions. For one, there are no lone nuts tinkering away in silent labs. Teamwork takes priority here--and as history suggests, there's nothing more powerful than the feedback effect of inventors riffing off one another's work...
...Israel for responding with excessive brutality to the Palestinian uprising, and Senator Mitchell's inquiry when it delivers its report in March may create pressure for Washington to be more critical than it has been until now of the conduct of its Israeli ally. That could easily have the effect of driving Israeli voters toward the right-wing Likud party, whose leaders, such as Ariel Sharon and Benjamin Netanyahu, have shown far less sensitivity toward American concerns than has Barak...