Word: effecting
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...yourself digital-entertainment thing is only getting bigger and bigger and bigger, like the Net itself. You can trace the revolution back to the best-watched awfullest movie of all times (excluding Runaway Bride), The Blair Witch Project (shot for $60,000 on videotape), which was marketed to blockbuster effect from a lowly website last year...
...Cardiology in Anaheim, Calif. In a preliminary analysis of a study of 309 women with heart disease, Dr. David Herrington of Wake Forest University School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, N.C., and his colleagues reported that estrogen, taken by itself or in combination with the drug progestin, had no effect for better or worse on the atherosclerotic plaques in the women's coronary arteries. Their conclusion echoes that of another study of female heart patients, published 18 months ago, that showed that estrogen is no better than a placebo at preventing a second heart attack...
Diallo's mother may lament the fact that no one got to know her son through the trial testimony, but court is not a talk show. And if civil rights activist Al Sharpton really wants to effect change in the New York police, he could probably be more influential by being silent rather than delivering hostile tirades. TIM LAITINEN Arlington, Texas...
...audiences left the concert halls in droves to protest what they felt was music that did not communicate. My compositions were dubbed "hopelessly tonal." Now it is safe to be a tonal composer. But the risk lies in music becoming so openly derivative and unchallenging, so dangerously reliant on effect, that it will invite a swing away from tonality and a move back to another period of nontonality. BENJAMIN LEES Palm Springs, Calif...
...economic effect on America of a new era of higher oil prices looks to be minimal; the political effect, however, could be considerable. After their collective huffing and puffing in Vienna this week, it looks like OPEC's 11 member countries will agree to boost production by 1.7 million barrels a day, a less-than-monumental increase designed to stabilize prices at their current level. This new price plateau, says Robert Kaufmann, professor at the Center for Energy and Environmental Studies at Boston University, will probably mean few broad-reaching economic ramifications. "Emphasis on 'probably,'" says Kaufmann. "We've seen...