The healthy halo effect is not limited to poor choices on side dishes.

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Most remarkable of all, though, is the effect on poor Sledge.

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One long-term effect of leaving school early is poor literacy: the Report estimates that almost 160 million adults in rich countries do not have the skills they need to apply for a job successfully.

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The main effect of these shareholdings now is to cushion poor managers from market pressure.

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Equally debatable is the effect the increases have on unemployment and the poor.

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Anthropogenic CO2 has some effect but our knowledge of the natural drivers is still so poor that we cannot accurately estimate what the anthropogenic CO2 contribution is.

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However, an analysis of the lives of 5, 000 women born in Britain in March 1958 suggests that short women have larger families than tall ones, an effect that is independent of such factors as the tendency of people from poor families to be shorter than those from rich ones.

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The summit is taking place amidst a worsening global economic situation which is likely to have a disproportionately harsh effect on the world's poor.

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