11.   Russell predicted costs would begin to mount at older plants as new environmental rules take effect.

12.   The approval would come just five days before the ban takes effect in dozens of countries that have already ratified the treaty.

13.   The board is to meet Thursday afternoon, and if it approves the contract as expected, the agreement will take effect immediately, retroactive to Saturday.

14.   The changes come in the third year of the seven-year accord between Nynex and the state Public Service Commission and take effect Monday.

15.   The guidelines, which take effect immediately, give supervisors a range of options depending on the seriousness and whether it is a first, second or third offense.

16.   The imports will probably keep growing for the next six years as the final phases of NAFTA take effect.

17.   The news taxes, which will replace a system of indirect taxes, takes effect tomorrow.

18.   The treaty would take effect after a certain, as yet undetermined, number of nations ratify it.

19.   They have evicted thousands of tenant farmers, hoping to be rid of them before any new law takes effect.