Word: affectation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...foreign tariff reprisals alarmed big exporting industrialists as much as the prospective disruption of the world trade cycle. Thirty nations have filed 161 specific protests against items in the Hawley-Smoot bill. Canada, best U. S. customer, has made a provisional upward revision of its tariff which would adversely affect 25% of the goods imported by the U. S. and give British imports a much higher preference rating. Cuba was moving in the same direction...
...return of Carol to the throne of Rumania is sure to affect more than the internal situation in that country. The new king, while something of an enigma to political students, is known to have very definite ideas about international affairs. The exact nature or import of these ideas is a question which will occupy the attention of more than one European foreign secretary until such time as some actual portents are visible...
...advertising, has little to gain by the merger, save to clear its cluttered field of one element of competition, and speed the swing of public taste away from the Victorian "genteel literary magazine" toward the virile, provocative medium for present-day skeptics. The joint title, Forum & Century will not affect its tactics while Editor Henry Goddard Leach remains...
...ExperimentaI cancer in rats and mice is quite different from cancer in humans. Agents which will cure, or apparently cure, rodent cancer, will not necessarily affect human cancer. But from observation of rodent reactions, pathologists hope to get clues to human reactions...
This is permitted under the "Escape Clause," "Safeguard Clause," "Contingent Clause" or "Escalator Clause" (as it is variously called) of the Treaty. It renders the reduction (or limitation') clauses of the Treaty non-binding and purely voluntary. It does not affect the clauses fixing the ratios to be maintained among the U. S., Britain and Japan, for if one of these takes the "escalator" up the others are allowed to follow proportionally...