Word: effective
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Clinton and his advisers have been able to make the campaign about the future, and not a referendum on the Clinton record. Morris' well-known policy of "triangulation"--steering between the extremes of the House Republicans and the liberals in Clinton's own party--has had the counterintuitive effect of making Clinton seem like a "conviction politician." In the face of the Republican tirade, Clinton looked strong simply by not backing down. Notes Clinton adviser George Stephanopoulos: "He has managed to speak to the country's desire for coming together, and to stand firm on his principles at the same...
...future, in particular the Russian presidential election scheduled for June. He was responding to the results of December's vote for the Russian parliament, the Duma, in which most successful candidates had campaigned as opponents of the measures with which Chubais was associated. The American government was thus, in effect, urging Yeltsin to commit political suicide...
...timely basis." Microchip giant Intel, for example, hired 300 engineers with master's or doctoral degrees last year. About 100 of them came from outside the U.S. "It's a pretty small number percentage-wise," says Tom Waldrop, an Intel spokesman, "but they have a very high effect on the success of the company...
...context-blurring frequency. Contemporary television images of skinheads tattooed with swastikas and the firebombed houses of Germany's Turkish immigrants regularly cross paths with rerun footage of Brownshirts rampaging in the 1930s. Have the unholy dead returned to inhabit new bodies? Hasselbach's zombie-like voice, preserved to creepy effect by American co-author Tom Reiss, can almost make you think so. "As he lay on the ground, Frank and I kicked him in the neck, in the stomach, in the face, in the skull...and I was thinking, as I kicked, Sure, his bones are breaking beneath my feet...
...have a five-person rooming group] and only one is going through recruiting, you can have a Solo Wall of Shame, so it can lose its therapeutic effect," Bonfili said...