Word: effective
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Students expressed concern that the proposition-which bans preference in state hiring based on race, color, gender, ethnicity or national origin-would have an adverse effect on academic programs such as ethnic studies. They were pleased to learn that it would...
...There is no way that 209 will be interpreted to have an effect on academic programs," Mandel said...
...Matter More Than IQ, which contends that children's ability to recognize their own emotions, empathize with peers and deal with crises--their "emotional quotient," or EQ--influences their life chances as much as native intelligence. The book, now a paperback best seller, has had a catalytic effect. Rutgers psychologist Maurice Elias, a pioneer in emotional education, says he fields endless calls, E-mails and faxes from interested educators. "There is credibility now given to taking time in the school day to carry out this kind of work," he says...
...army faces the South's defenders, including 37,000 U.S. troops. Mines, American generals argue, are the only way to slow down an onslaught from the North long enough to reinforce the South. So U.S. negotiators in Oslo asked the drafters of the treaty for exceptions that would, in effect, allow the U.S. to use such mines in Korea for 19 more years and would exempt antipersonnel weapons when they are used to protect antitank mines. This last-ditch wiggling from Washington got nowhere, and 89 countries approved the ban, which is to be signed in Ottawa in December...
...This one example won't have a dramatic effect on the school, but repeat this many times over the next 25 years and it will be very, very significant," says Frank H. Huff, vice president for finance...