Word: effecting
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...There were some concerns, problems with Yale students and alumni as well as Harvard [students and alumni]," Chipman said. "In general, I think you'd find over the history of college campuses that banning kegs does have a [positive] effect...
...Their decision sullies the legitimacy of the court and of the Bush presidency," he wrote in an e-mail message. "The 5-4 decision was based less on principle than on partisanship. In effect, the five justices in the majority simply voted for the president twice--once in November, and again in December...
...vote, with justices John Paul Stevens and Ruth Bader Ginsburg dissenting, the court held per curiam that "there are constitutional problems" with the Florida Supreme Court's decision. By a 5-4 vote, the court ruled that, in effect, there was nothing more the Florida court could do to fairly recount the state's ballots without disrupting the electoral process...
...official application), the selection committee forms its opinion on a gravely impoverished set of information. Not only does this deny a full accounting of candidates' extra-curricular and academic accomplishments, thereby discounting any attribute not captured in a letter grade or activity listing, but it also has the effect of biasing the committee towards candidates with strong transcripts at the expense of those whose contributions have come in other places. The OCS process also fails to include an interview, the most important and infamous feature of the Rhodes selection process...
...deception had the desired effect. I withheld judgement on the existence of Santa for another year, and my parents could revel in my naivete. But the next Christmas "Santa" gave my sister a toy that I remembered seeing before in our house. Either Santa was having an economically trying year and had helped himself to some of our older toys, or my parents had misled me all along. Learning the truth was a disappointment, but even more disturbing was the belittlement and the manipulation that previous "evidences" implied. The world had connived to pull one over on me, and that...