Word: effective
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...obvious concern is that a serious downturn in investment markets would have a detrimental effect on the current account of the University and would require alternative financial sources, very possibly from the Faculties," the report says...
Indeed, Radcliffe Rugby has a unique effect on it's team members. With very few exceptions, none of the players have any rugby experience, and step onto the field for the first time with absolutely no idea of how to play the game. But after only a few weeks on the team, it becomes almost impossible for them to envision a college experience devoid of the sport...
While a hostile attitude toward China on the part of our government could conceivably exacerbate human rights abuses in that country, we doubt the University would have the same effect. If the U.S. wants to listen to Jiang Zemin, let it do so on public land, not on the grounds of a hallowed University that stands for freedom, reason and truth--things Jiang Zemin has not protected...
...said the huge appetite of the sauropods had a major effect on the continent and its forests of primitive plants...
...usual duties of meditating...teaching and begging, more and more of them are busy issuing political manifestoes, organizing riots and working for the downfall of governments. From the Indian Ocean to the Sea of Japan, from the Irrawaddy to Tonkin Bay, [Buddhist monks] are causing political waves whose final effect they themselves cannot foresee but which are vitally affecting the Western--and the Communist--role in the fate of Asia... It was only 18 months ago that a 73-year-old Buddhist monk...sat down in...a Saigon street and...calmly set himself afire with a cigarette lighter to dramatize...