Word: effective
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Republican-led House Oversight committee had scheduled the pair to testify separately, hoping to draw out Freeh's support of an independent counsel. But Freeh was determined to present a united front; he wanted to sit at Reno's side. So, Democrats introduced a resolution to that effect; it was defeated. Freeh settled for a seat behind Reno, at her elbow (at least they'd be pictured together.) And loyally waited ? for six-and-a-half hours ? while his counterpart testified. Observed TIME Washington correspondent Elaine Shannon: "Aides were dropping like flies...
...ripple-effect crisis in Japan could then be felt in the U.S. At the very least, Japan would decrease its imports of American goods, thus widening its already large trade gap with this country. At the worst, Japan would begin selling off some of its $320 billion in U.S. Treasury securities, leading to a run-up in U.S. interest rates and perhaps an end to the bull market...
...dioxide traps the sun's heat like the glass of a greenhouse. In theory, therefore, the earth's temperature should be on the rise--with potentially disastrous consequences that could include inundated coastlines, drastically altered weather, severe disturbances to agriculture, and tropical diseases' pushing into new territory. But the effect was still too small to be measured with any confidence. Indeed, when James Hansen, of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Science, proclaimed in 1987 that "the warming has begun," his colleagues, including many who took the threat seriously, declared his statement premature...
...Whitney has done the subject full justice. Its heart being where it is, the museum needed lots and lots of space to present a mass of trivia and threadbare junk from the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, Pa., pointlessly documenting the pallid maestro's effect on advertising and fashion, under the title "The Warhol Look/Glamour Style Fashion." So the Whitney's out-of-house curator, Jane Livingston, found the space for Diebenkorn whittled down to one floor and a small entry gallery of the museum, which is nothing like enough for a just overview of the man's pictorial achievement...
...finally get one of his nominations past the Republicans: do it himself. A Presidential "recess appointment" would allow Bill Lan Lee to occupy the federal government's top civil rights job of assistant attorney general until 1998, the end of the current term, but would have one side effect: getting up a lot of Congressional back...