Word: effective
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Under what will be enormous public pressure to reach a compromise, Carney notes, the two sides may simply agree to a stopgap resolution without agreeing on a budget, in effect punting the issue until the 1996 elections: "A 'no-deal' is still a possibility. But first they have to come up with some sort of continuing resolution just to keep the government running, even if it's a continuing resolution for the whole year. At some point, there will be a very serious impact as new applicants for welfare and veterans benefits aren't able to get anything and services...
Conference organizers were optimistic about the effect of the conference on the student body...
...their quest to become women. Swaab concedes this possibility but notes that two women in the study's control group were postmenopausal and presumably no longer manufactured much estrogen. Their BSTc was still the same size as the younger women's, which may mean that estrogen has no effect on the structure's size...
...next step for the researchers is to locate the precise gene or genes involved and attempt to determine their biochemical effects. Will finding such "gay genes" rule out the idea that social and psychological influences can have a significant effect on a man's sexual preference? "Absolutely not," declares molecular biologist Dean Hamer of the National Cancer Institute, who headed both the 1993 investigation and the new one. "From twin studies, we already know that half or more of the variability in sexual orientation is not inherited. Our studies try to pinpoint the genetic factors, not to negate the psychosocial...
...debt, announced a series of moves to enable the government to make $102 billion in loan payments when they come due Wednesday and Thursday. The Treasury will auction securities to raise the money and borrow most of the rest from two government retirement funds. Borrowing allows President Clinton in effect to temporarily raise the debt ceiling while vetoing a GOP bill loaded with politically unpalatable amendments. But the strategy has a price: "They have to pay back the money they borrowed plus the interest lost while the money was gone," says TIME's Adam Zagorin. Still, he adds...