To your larger point, I wish the cause-effect relationship of reporting were as simple as you describe it: we report, they react.
In terms of the effect, I believe that the effect of the -- on the supplies chain that was caused by -- the global supply chain, especially in automobile manufacturing, that was caused by the earthquake and tsunami, that that has certainly diminished.
People are quite stupendously lazy if they can't see a direct cause-effect and I think that quite a few of the apathetic - "what difference will my vote make" - bunch would be more likely to exercise their franchise if they didn't have to exercise their legs.
But today, as I ponder the principles I presented in Building a 100-Year Company, I am wondering about the ripple effect to the people and the community when a company is built primarily with the goal of being eventually sold.
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Every time I see this -- see, I'm getting to see the full effect along with you all.
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And so I think, in effect, you know--there's a saying that no publicity is bad publicity.
In the December 12 article Profit Now From January Effect, I recommended two closed-end funds, one of which was the Royce Value Trust ( RVT).
It's not that I feel any less disturbed by the soul-sucking effect of modern day life.
In foresight forums where we think about cause-and-effect in a structured way, I talk about 1918 influenza epidemic that killed 50 million people.
Perhaps it had such a huge effect on me because I still prefer face-to-face communication over email, phone and the like.
So it's my hope that the steps I'm announcing today will have a salutary effect -- will go a long way forward towards answering many of the questions that people have about the future of GM and Chrysler.
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In effect, I was replacing some of the high-taxed coupon income I would have had between 2009 and 2026 with a low-taxed capital gain now.
Mr Limb said that "we have increased class size numbers on part-time and full-time courses and I think this will have a significant effect on our community programme".
So, I am positive that commercials selling super-sugary treats are having an effect on our children.
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And I agree -- which is why this freeze won't take effect until next year -- (laughter) -- when the economy is stronger.
The power of online learning communities is more visible in lean-running start-ups where skills must shift quickly, but I think their effect will be more profound in established companies on a global scale.
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If it decides to come out with a lower priced iPhone I would agree that it will have a negative effect on its high-end phones.
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Now, the reason that I'm not proposing the discretionary freeze take into effect this year -- we prepared a budget for 2010, it's now going forward -- is, again, I am just listening to the consensus among people who know the economy best.
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The fact that he's been talking about the need to do this from the beginning, in 2009, and now other politicians are talking about it and making their opinions known about it -- I mean, I think you have to look at cause and effect here.
The foregoing has no effect on Apple stock in the short-term, but I will be revising our model for the long-term with a negative implication.
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So I think it has had a very positive effect for moving and providing some health -- momentum for health care reform.
It's a fine point, to be sure, but if I'm buying this car I'm getting the 19-inch wheels and tires, simply to minimize that effect.
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Retrospective analysis should not be the basis of an FDA approval, of course, but it can and should be the basis to understand direction and general magnitude of an underlying cause-effect relationship, particularly when that relationship is already is well established i.e.
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Add to the mix medium-run uncertainty (i.e. several years down the road) about the effect of the recent health care legislation and financial regulatory reform.
Now many of these add-ons will slow down Firefox very slightly so I would not try to download them all - and remember - the downloads will not take effect until you restart the browser.
Having served as a state senator, having then served as a United States senator, I had had a chance to see how economic policies were having an effect on working-class families and middle-class families for a long time.
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"I'm counting the days until July 18, when the new law goes into effect -- it includes a stiff penalty for cyberstalking, " Thackeray said.
"I don't love telling everything, just for the reason of the effect on people -- like when a magician does something, you really don't want to know -- but if it helps an actual photographer to go out and do cool stuff, I'm for it, " he says.
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And that doesn't really have much of an effect, I imagine, on today's polling data, but it does have an effect on our long-term economic viability.
As a journalist, I think we should not be complaining so loudly about this judgement but accept it as a necessary side-effect of the increasing acceptance of the web as a publishing medium.
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