Word: effecting
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...used to traveling by airplane; disconnected cities thousands of miles away seem, in effect, to be connected by magical tunnels of air. Visiting my relatives in Greece is a much shorter distance, culturally and physically speaking, than was driving south to small-town Illinois science competitions in high school...
Traveling by bus has the double effect of driving home not simply how large this country is--how many roads, exits, zip codes, gas stations and towns can fit in a finger's worth of map--but also how much exists between the familiar pieces, how much of the country I routinely do not experience. By plane, the world becomes a series of connected dots. I can move between the places I feel at home, or the places I want to go, passing over everything in between...
Rudenstine spoke about trekking the globe on behalf of the Capital Campaign. He also discussed information technology and its effect on higher education...
...money left over to buy a cup of coffee while you fuel up during your next pit stop, but don't be so quick to thank OPEC. The recent drop in gas prices - more than two cents a gallon in the last two weeks - isn't a trickle-down effect of last month's OPEC decision. Trickle-down isn't a fast process, and it's hardly possible that the oil production increase was finalized, the taps turned on, and supplies replenished enough to lower prices so rapidly just one month after the group's decision...
...country's economy has alienated many voters. But Fujimori made it clear three years ago that he had no intention of handing over power when he passed a law entitling him to the extra term on the basis that the constitution he rewrote in 1992 came into effect only after his initial election - and had congress dismiss three constitutional court judges who challenged this interpretation. "His critics also say that in order to be reelected, he's put the brakes on economic reforms and veered toward populism," says TIME Latin American bureau chief Tim McGirk. "More than one third...