Word: affected
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...businessmen, whether Democrats or Republicans, have a deep-seated aversion to political activity. Even in the last presidential campaign an upsurge in political interest on the part of businessmen generally took the form of discreet, behind-the-scenes aid. Few businessmen shrink from political action in cases that directly affect their industry, e.g., for higher tariffs on imported textiles (promised by implication last week in the Democratic platform). But most executives shrink from open support of political parties for fear of offending customers, stockholders or powerful public officials. Shrugs a Republican auto-industry executive: "We sell cars to both Democrats...
...financial hardship. Ultimately the family's livelihood depends on the horse, Takeru, who hopefully will turn out to be the Nashua of his hemisphere. The horse experiences two traumatic experiences with fire, the first in a nearby forest and the second in his Tokyo stable. These incidents of couse affect his racing proficiency, and in the end the boy uses his harmonica in an attempt to calm the distraught animal in preparation for the "big race...
Pending seasoned Bob Murphy's report, the U.S. intended to mark time. Secretary Dulles cut short his Latin American schedule, flew home this week. Said he: "The [Egyptian] action could affect not merely the shareholders, who. so far as T know, are not Americans, but it could affect the operation of the canal itself. That would be a matter of deep concern to the United States, as one of the maritime nations...
...each member is vital to the well-being of every other. But we can, I think, do more . . . Each of us should name a special representative to join in preparing for us concrete recommendations for making our O.A.S. a more effective instrument in those fields of cooperative effort that affect the welfare of our peoples." Ike suggested "my brother Milton" (see EDUCATION) as the U.S. representative...
...tell in detail how this could be done, but he gave a long chain of complex equations showing how energy is released in reacting gases (deuterium or tritium), and how energy escapes from the system. He gave a few general hints about how the lines of magnetic force affect and confine the moving ions. He did not sound lightly confident; repeatedly, he pointed to serious difficulties...