Word: effective
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...could fill the film frame superbly. He was also lucky. With the box-office triumph of Star Wars, Hollywood was back in the action- fantasy business. And with producers spending millions on optical gadgetry, Arnold was a bargain: here was a star whose body was its own stunning special effect. Eventually, smart moviemakers figured out how to carve a narrative niche sturdy enough for him to occupy...
...Fort) in the early 1700s. With trade the major source of income, the tribes established a unique political system. Of the three most , influential families, the Khalifas and the Jalahimas concerned themselves with commerce; the third, the Sabahs, governed. Having voluntarily created an oligarchy of competing interests, Kuwait, in effect, was ruled by popular consent. The contract among the families was the seed of a quasi-democratic tradition that has persisted for nearly three centuries...
...investment office, lean and mean because they were (and still are) the lifeblood of the country, merit counted for nothing. "There was no accountability," says Khalifa, "because government employees were promoted automatically. It was impossible to fire civil servants. Several years ago the parliament passed an amazing law. In effect, it said that if someone was performing poorly, he would have been fired. But, says this law, since he was not fired, then by definition he was performing well, and that, in turn, means that he is entitled to a pay raise, if not a promotion, on a regular basis...
People have long distrusted industry assertions, but they expect better from environmentalists, who have enjoyed great credibility. The debate over Big Green's pesticide provisions left many voters wondering whether environmental interest groups exaggerate for effect. Congressman Al Swift of Washington State says the environmental lobby in Congress has grown from a David into a Goliath without exercising the restraint that should come with its greatly expanded influence...
...epidemiological studies, which find statistical associations between sets of data, do not prove cause and effect. Though there is a body of laboratory work showing that exposure to ELF fields can have biological effects on animal tissues, a mechanism by which those effects could lead to cancerous growths has never been found...