Word: effective
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...committee will try to compromise on some of the most contentious portions of the proposed benefits changes before they take effect...
...University's proposed changes to employee health benefits include increasing retiree contribution and reducing the University's contribution to insurance for part time staff. These changes are due to go into effect in 1996 and 1997 respectively...
...enough. They must ultimately be supported by peer-reviewed evidence, and Dr. Mack failed to meet that expectation. He hadn't published evidence in the scientific literature or in any scholarly books. He had not involved his peers in any collaborative studies of the "abductees." He had in effect isolated himself from his academic colleages and discouraged the kind of evidence-based peer review and criticsm that ordinarily take place in the "market-place" of science...
Although I share Mr. Dershowitz's commitment to academic freedom, I think our inquiry will have exactly the opposite effect. Who could be more "outside the mainstream" than a clinical professor who seriously suggests that his patients (and thousands or millions of others) may have been abducted and abused by extraterrestrial "aliens." And yet, the issue of concern to the Medical School was not what Dr. Mack chose to study, but the way he did it. If Harvard did not challenge Dr. Mack's freedom to work on that subject and hold such views, how could any future maverick...
...dismiss black and Latino complaints of discrimination as either mere pleading for preferential treatment or hallucinations, until an incontrovertible piece of evidence such as the Fuhrman tapes comes along. Then, inevitably, a surge of moral condemnation washes across the country like a cathartic wave--and subsides without any lasting effect. By the time the next ugly story surfaces, we're right back in denial mode...