Word: effective
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...called Santa Claus Effect that boosted the stock market on the day after Christmas fizzled as the Dow Jones industrial average fell 4.34 points Wednesday, closing at 5,105.92. The New York Stock Exchange composite index was up slightly, 0.49, to end the day at 318.13. On the Big Board, advancers led decliners 1,331 to 984, with 778 unchanged. Volume was light with 252.31 million shares traded. The technology-heavy Nasdaq composite index fell 0.68 to close at 1,048.69. The Standard & Poor's 500 stocks rose slightly, 0.23 to 614.53. The American Stock Exchange market value index...
...against misusing public office to deprive citizens of their due-process rights; a report is due after Christmas. But it is unclear whether the proofs necessary to convict Perez and others are available in Wenatchee. A state appeals court may free those who were jailed. But no court can effect the rebuilding of shattered lives and families...
...GAME by John le Carre (Knopf). Despite much prophesying to that effect, the end of the cold war did not mean the end of the moral and political murk in which spying and spy thrillers flourish. Le Carre continues to be the master of this shadowy genre, and he is near the top of his form in his latest novel. His hero is a middle-age intelligence operative put to pasture by bosses who decide (wrongly, as it turns out) that his skills and mind-set are obsolete. A bittersweet love affair winds through a landscape of modern menace, whose...
Sidelined, as it has customarily been whenever the Commander in Chief has decided to commit U.S. troops abroad, a deeply ambivalent Congress voted on a jumble of Bosnia resolutions. The net effect of the House and Senate actions was to express full support for the U.S. troops who will be sent on the nato peacekeeping mission but to register deep reservations about the deployment...
GESO's members will also hurt themselves by withholding grades. What professor will or should ever recommend them for teaching positions in the future? The TAs' behavior will undoubtedly strike experienced academics as irresponsible and harmful to the educational process; several professors have recently commented to this effect...