Word: effective
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Gates was asked to testify at the 2 Live Crew hearing in front of a six-member jury. Gates, in effect, was asking the jury to decide based on their inability to understand. Your ignorance, the defense claimed, is immutable. Trust us, because you can't know. It is a Black thing. (Only one Black served on the jury...
About 650 acres of habitat remain now. Nine acres are to be cut for observatory construction. "Nine acres actually means 40 acres of damage to the squirrels habitat due to the `edge effect,'" says Warshall. "Sunlight and wind heat up the area of forest near the cut line, creating a microclimate too warm for the squirrels...
...debuts of the past decade. It proved decisively that the advance word was no mere hype. Schumann's early "Abegg" Variations beguiled with youthful ardor and passion. The same composer's tricky Symphonic Etudes was taken at a daringly slow tempo initially, but Kissin made it work by, in effect, playing the series of challenging variations as if he were inventing the piece as he went along. After intermission, he tamed the ferocious Sixth Sonata by Sergei Prokofiev and concluded with Liszt's familiar Liebestraume No. 3 and his exotic Rhapsodie Espagnole. The audience rewarded him with a prolonged standing...
...reform chosen by Gorbachev and Yeltsin can avoid turning into a collision course is the country's biggest issue. As the situation was fuzzily sketched by Yeltsin, the Russian Republic has three options: go it alone entirely, with its own army, currency and customs system, which would mean, in effect, secession; enter into some new coalition with Gorbachev that edges out the U.S.S.R.'s most unpopular national leader, cautious Prime Minister Nikolai Ryzhkov; or go ahead with a modified Shatalin program on Nov. 1 and wait for Gorbachev's plan to fail -- an outcome Yeltsin predicted would happen within...
...pitiful sight seeing tenured Harvard professors fearful of the effect on their reputations were they to sponsor AALARM. This trepidation outweighted their devotion to their sacred charge of advancing the free exchange of ideas...