The good news is that across many trials, the interventions being delivered seem to work.

As shown in Table 5, the intervention seems to have had a differential impact by outlet type.

President Clinton's personal intervention seems to have energized his bureaucracy.

Without the Bank of Japan, the intervention seems to have less effect, traders said.

The best possible intervention for neglected orphan children would seem to be adoption into loving families.

After his intervention seemed to improve the situation they wished him to return to the monastery.

Currency dealers said the intervention seemed to be more aggressive than last week's, when the bank limited its purchases to small amounts.

For some people parental intervention may seem like an arranged marriage.

As a show of market power, the joint intervention to rescue the euro seems not to have much impressed its audience.

Such constant interventions in faraway countries of which Americans know nothing might seem to hold limited appeal.