Word: effective
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...basic argument was that divestmentwon't have any effect on South Africa and all thatwill happen is that Harvard will lose money,"Jeffrey said. "There wasn't enough moraljustification for selling the stocks in thecompany that Harvard does invest...
...Lithuania goes, so goes the nation," observed a senior White House official. The volatile standoff between Moscow and Vilnius came just as radical ( nationalists won a majority of seats in the local legislatures of the other two Baltic republics, Estonia and Latvia. Gorbachev's angry words had some effect: Estonian Communist Party leaders last week said the republic should negotiate its secession with Moscow, while the parliament of independence- minded Georgia postponed elections until the fall...
...effect is to foster attitudes of casualness toward violence and brutality not just in entertainment but in everyday life. People are not as uncomfortable as they ought to be about the glamorization of human hurt. The ability to react instinctively to suffering seems to be atrophying. Youngsters sit transfixed in front of television or motion-picture screens, munching popcorn while human beings are battered or mutilated. Nothing is more essential in education than respect for the frailty of human beings; nothing is more characteristic of the age than mindless violence...
...have the opportunity. They don't get it in TV or films. I think it's important that actors do films, but I think they're way ahead of the game if they've got a theatrical background. Actors like ourselves should be able to reproduce the same effect again and again and again and again. But actors who haven't had a theater discipline can't do that...
...POBRES. Statehood for the poor? In Puerto Rico's triangulated politics, the statehood cause had been - monopolized by the upper class. A small faction of nationalists and leftists fought, occasionally with guns, for total independence. The rest of the population appeared content with commonwealth status, the pragmatic option in effect since 1952. As an American commonwealth, or "associated free state" in island usage, Puerto Rico has received enough benefits and tax concessions from Washington to make it rich by Caribbean standards. But it remains impoverished compared with the mainland, with half the per capita income of Mississippi...