Word: effective
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Thirty-four students were eventually brought before University disciplinary bodies for participating in the strike. None received punishments that had any effect more serious than a permanent disciplinary record...
...thread of a 5-4 decision hangs the ruling that affirmed the consideration of race as one of many factors in the admissions process. One of the two majority opinions emphasizes the positive effect diversity has on education. Harvard's efforts are also lauded as a model for other schools to follow...
...Bradbury's hero had been Ernest Hemingway, and Bradbury could not understand or cope with Hemingway's suicide," McCaffrey says. "Bradbury wrote a marvelous story, "The Kilimanjaro Effect,' in which Hemingway is killed by a tiger as a way to deal with his death in real life. I realized that in writing that story, I had done much the same for my father...
...prostitutes. Linda Bird Francke notes in her new book, Ground Zero, that 64% of the Air Force personnel responding to a Roper Poll of Gulf War units reported sexual activity in their squads. Not that it bothered them: 77% of the Roper respondents said it had little or no effect on readiness for battle. Yet the brass has been unconvinced, especially when fraternization--the extracurricular association of officers with enlisted personnel--was involved. Fraternization was outlawed even when it referred primarily to poker games between lieutenants and grunts. Today commanders face nightmare scenarios of officers using rank to extort...
...course can be converted to a presidential war chest in a snap. Gephardt is determined to show the smart money in Washington that he can compete with AL GORE at fund raising. The event is a very early test for those who are serious about Campaign 2000. The effect, says a Gephardt adviser, is to send a signal that Gephardt "is capable of raising a lot of money...