The basic effect is that given that the ground at night is generally cooler than the atmosphere, thus the air near the ground is cooler than the air higher up.
The pity is that Mr Straw has ignored other measures that might achieve the desired effect without violating basic rights.
It is hard to dispute Mr King's basic macroeconomic instincts that the effect emerging economies are having on the world economy is considerable and is easily underestimated by policymakers.
But CVT's scientists argued that they had done basic science that showed their drug's effect on heart rhythms was not harmful at all.
SNP's plans to put 1p on the basic income-tax rate paid by Scots, in effect annulling the tax cut promised by Mr Brown for next year.
The power of Wall Street, in effect, to corner markets worldwide in vital basic commodities, has played havoc with the business cycle and has fostered bubbles, allowing them to occur more often and with ever increasing amplitudes.
This will have a ripple effect throughout the whole economy because energy production is basic to the manufacture and distrribution of all products.
But the Cystic Fibrosis Trust said the medicine was "transformational", had a "dramatic effect" and that experts say "no other medicine addresses the basic genetic defect in cystic fibrosis".
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The overall effect of the app is to surprise you and make you reconsider some basic assumptions about one of your basic senses.
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Look, say the pundits, at the net effect of his new lower income-tax band (starting next month), the cut in the basic rate of income tax from 23% to 22%, the changes to national insurance, the abolition of the married couples' tax allowance and the mortgage-interest allowance (all starting a year from now), the new child tax credit (from 2001), etc.
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