Word: effecting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2000
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Jacoby spoke of the pledge's personal effect on his life...
...Israel's 26,000 police will patrol the trip, which Israeli police chief Yehuda Wilk calls "the most complicated in [Israel's] history." There are concerns about terrorist missiles (the Pope, atypically, will travel in a Blackhawk helicopter, a small target) and about the itinerary's effect on his health ("at the limit of what's prudent," says a veteran of 60 papal trips). And the expense: just one preparation, the hollowing of a hillside near the town of Korazim for a papal Mass, cost the Israelis $3 million...
This battle for students has had a bracing effect on public school systems. In Boston, a hotbed of for-profit schooling, the city has responded by launching 11 pilot schools to test innovative curriculums. "We want children to be educated in the best environment," says Albert Holland, a Boston public school official. "We don't mind the competition...
...approach. Rather than rationally probe Buchanan's extremely vulnerable ideas, each questioner, in their turn, would simply let out a maelstrom: "Mr. Buchanan, in 1977 you wrote 'x' about the Jews. In 1983 you wrote 'y' about black people. In 1986 you said 'z' about women. Please respond." The effect, and apparently the intention, was not to rightly illustrate the flaws in Buchanan's outlook, but merely to assail him with a barrage of hostility...
...conspicuous display of bright green ribbons at last month's Cultural Rhythms show notwithstanding, the call for greater opportunities for ethnic studies at Harvard seems to have had little effect. Part of the problem has been confusion over what the goals of ethnic-studies advocates should be--what kind of ethnic studies program would most benefit the College and its undergraduates. It is our belief that, based on the current success of other interdisciplinary programs at Harvard, the College should create of a degree-granting committee in ethnic studies...