• And we won that fight, too -- (applause) -- and that law will take effect by the time -- that law is scheduled to take effect by the time freshmen graduate.

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  • Genomic knowledge, of humans and other species, will transform medicine by introducing side-effect-free drugs that work first time, expanding the range of diseases that are treatable and refining diagnosis.

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  • Trivial contributions are obviously excluded by the substantial-effect test.

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  • It's not that I feel any less disturbed by the soul-sucking effect of modern day life.

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  • And this is precisely where Republicans have begun a state-by-state effort to effect change.

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  • This is a known phenomenon that can in principle be calculated and predicted based on a given sea-level rise, by means of the so-called Bruun effect.

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  • Pope Benedict XVI's shock resignation - the first by a pope in nearly 600 years - takes effect on Thursday.

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  • That suggests that most of the 30%-to-50% toll charged by other fund managers is pure profit -- in effect, money for nothing.

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  • Madrid's structural deficit - which strips out the effect of the recession - fell only by 1.4% of GDP last year, barely half the 2.7% target set by the Commission.

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  • The researchers included in their model a hitherto-neglected effect proposed by a German physicist, Arnold Sommerfeld, in the 1930s.

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  • The findings, based on data from 80 Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSIs), also warned that the impact of overgrazing by deer had a knock-on effect that undermined woodland ecologies.

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  • They also conclude that greenhouse warming has partially been offset by the cooling effect of aerosols - tiny particles of dust thrown into the atmosphere that can reflect solar radiation back into space.

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  • The researchers found that the drugs did have a positive impact on people with mild depression - but the effect was no bigger than that achieved by giving patients a sugar-coated "dummy" pill.

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  • The narrowest measure of the money supply - in effect, cash on bank balance sheets - has risen by 58% since September, as you'd expect when the Bank is handing their customers all that freshly created money in exchange for the purchased gilts.

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  • E-cigarettes work by vaporising nicotine-laced liquid that can be inhaled, replicating the effect of smoking without all of the carcinogens.

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  • The fighting, which eased at nightfall, was by far the most serious violation of a cease-fire brokered by NATO and the European Union that took effect July 5.

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  • Sixth forms will be radically altered by government-inspired changes due to take effect in September.

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  • The shock-wave effect is substantiated by survivors' accounts, according to the Yonhap report.

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  • The model also enables managers to fine-tune debt portfolios by estimating the effect new assets will have on the overall risk profile.

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  • Veterans coming to Colorado--Bill Swift, Darrel Kyle, Hampton and Neagle--were easily psyched out by the effect of the altitude on their earned run averages.

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  • Fabrizio Sanna and colleagues at the University of Cagliari in Italy injected oxytocin into particular parts of the brains of rats and induced yawning, or blocked the effect by injecting an oxytocin-blocking chemical first.

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  • Simply put, by, in effect, prohibiting foreign-born individuals from coming to America to work legally on temporary visas to fill lower-skilled jobs, the federal government is imposing the type of policy he decries in other areas.

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  • The reality is that Dallas-based Southwest Airlines has maintained an 11% capacity growth rate--measured by available seat miles--over the past five years without any visible effect on profitability.

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  • The reality is that Dallas, Texas-based Southwest Airlines has maintained an 11% capacity growth rate--measured by available seat miles--over the past five years without any visible effect on profitability.

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  • Another paper, co-authored by Andreas Kuhn of the University of Zurich, investigates the effect of a change in Austrian employment-insurance rules that allowed blue-collar workers earlier retirement in some regions than others.

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  • At French Connection, like-for-like sales in the 24 weeks to 12 January - which exclude the effect of newly opened stores - were reported to have fallen by 2.9% from a year earlier, of which 1.9 percentage points were due to the late start of its sale, the firm claimed.

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  • The planned cuts - which news agencies said would take effect this financial year - would come about "primarily by rethinking how we do things", Mr Ballmer wrote.

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  • So, are Senators supposed to accept the line currently being touted by Chuck Hagel in one-on-one meetings with them and by his defenders in public to the effect that "he firmly believes in a strong nuclear deterrent as long as we face nuclear threats"?

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  • While the federal class-action law has not necessarily had an effect on the types of industries that are affected by class-action cases, there has been a decline in cases that have, for example, led to an Illinois law being applied to an insurance contract in Alabama, Frank adds.

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