Word: effecting
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...under his authority, but the man himself was barely seen or heard. Since the morning after the stillborn election, Austin's strategy was to have Bush be the victor who must patiently tolerate a few technicalities. But Gore's plan to chip away at that notion has had an effect. It helped that Gore won the popular vote. And the Gore message--count all the votes--may have been expedient, but it was also simple. Bush's response wasn't: We can't trust people to count the votes fairly, he said; and that just didn't sound right coming...
...high-profile kidnappings to get his point across. In October his men nabbed seven national lawmakers to underscore his opposition to a proposed prisoner exchange between the government and the FARC. The hostages were freed after the Interior Minister met with Castano, but the meeting had a damaging effect: last Tuesday the FARC used it as an excuse to break off peace talks...
Statins were much in the news last week. They are so successful in preventing heart attacks that researchers are furiously investigating all the other things these drugs might be doing for the heart besides lowering cholesterol levels. It turns out that the noncholesterol effects of statins, such as controlling clotting and inflammation, may be as important as the cholesterol effects. In a study of patients given atorvastatin (Lipitor) as soon as they arrived at a hospital complaining of chest pain, it was found that those who took the drug for four weeks after their cardiac event were significantly less likely...
...long enough to read anymore. You know the problem. You can't focus on the small type in books and magazines and on aspirin bottles at your normal reading distance, and so you start moving the print farther and farther away. If you haven't already experienced this trombone effect, don't worry, you will. Starting around age 40, the lenses in most people's eyes start to weaken. You begin to lose the ability to focus on things close up and have to resort to bifocals or reading glasses to make out the fine print. (The moderately nearsighted...
...state legislature by allowing hand counts to continue past the legal deadline? Did it violate a federal law that requires that electors be selected according to rules set before the voting takes place? And most interesting, the Justices asked the Gore and Bush teams, What would be the effect on this whole showdown if they were to overturn the Florida court's ruling...