Word: effecting
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...adds that it is important that all this complexity be a product of a slow, painstaking process. "The language of 'healing' and 'closure,'" he says, "is the obscene language of forgetfulness." Yet he also says the effect of the new memorials is to make one both remember and forget. The Murrah Building wall and the shell of the Journal Record newspaper building behind the Survivor Tree were deliberately preserved to recall the destructiveness, the ugliness, of the bombing. Without them, the memorial would look solely like a pastoral landscape--soothing and quietly evocative, yet minus clues that something terrible...
...over the hub-and-spoke system by fewer and fewer airlines. United tried to head off those worries by putting some provisions in the deal - promising a fare freeze (except in case of upticks in inflation or gas prices, of course) for two years after the merger is in effect and vowing to sell most of US Airways' slots at Washington's Reagan National Airport to Black Entertainment Television mogul Robert T. Johnson and his new airline, DC Air. That may not be enough. Look for American's big shots and lobbyists to lead the fight, arguing that two years...
...officially a war. Many peacetime legal and political restrictions remained in effect. Governments limited the pace of the action, the types of weapons that could be used and the targets that could be struck. Our targets were often in the midst of civilians--some of the very people we were trying to help. We looked at each target carefully before we struck, and we used precision weapons--laser-, GPS- or TV-guided bombs and missiles--as often as possible to limit risks to innocent civilians...
Orphans such as Israel, India and Pakistan live in dangerous neighborhoods and have legitimate security concerns. They will probably behave just as the original nuclear powers did, which is to say they will use the weapons primarily for deterrence. The ultimate effect of their joining the club should be to extend the cold war's great power stability--and harrowing crises--to a few regional hot spots. The chief problem with the orphans is getting them to understand the importance of proper safety measures, secure command and control procedures, and other cold war lessons...
...went wrong, the fault lay not only in the suppression of market opportunities but also in the lack of attention to social poverty (for example, in the form of widespread illiteracy). India has reaped as it has sown by cultivating higher education (its booming software industry is only one effect of that), but the country has paid dearly for leaving nearly half the people illiterate. Social poverty has helped perpetuate economic poverty as well...