The Koreshans practiced celibacy -- effectively assuring their probable extinction -- because they believed in immortality.
Joseph F. Wayland, deputy assistant attorney general of the Justice Department's antitrust division, said in a statement that the resolution of the case "assures that airfare comparison and booking Web sites will be able to compete effectively, providing benefits to consumers".
Rest assured, that will be changing soon.
A decades-old system of American textile import quotas is due to expire at the end of 2004 -- a system that capped China's share of the market and effectively assured manufacturers in smaller nations that they would receive some American orders.
The top-flight sides that rotated the least on Saturday included West Ham United, Manchester United, Manchester City and Arsenal, all of whom are effectively assured of Premier League football next season.
The high prevalence/incidence of type 2 diabetes and its substantive effects on quality of life, social impact, and economic costs point to the importance of assuring that this disease is screened, diagnosed and managed expeditiously and effectively.
But the decline of unemployment since then has more to do with the fact that Germany — perhaps unintentionally but certainly effectively — has managed to assure that its currency is undervalued, both relative to that of its neighbors and to much of the rest of the world.
The remaining buffer in the microcuvette was then exchanged 4 times that evening, and exchanged 3 times the following morning to assure that the glucose concentration was effectively zero.
A spokeswoman for the National Security Council, Caitlin M. Hayden, said Monday that the reviews now underway are intended to assure "that we are more effectively weighing the risks and rewards of our activities".
The competitive dynamic of the marketplace would be effectively re-created, but Washington could be assured that the funds are, indeed, used for clean energy purposes.
