Word: affected
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...duchess, marchioness, countess and lady. He took to appearing in a bearskin, squatting on the floor and chanting gibberish "Indian songs my mother taught me in the cradle." As the royalties poured in, he began mouthing cloudy dicta, e.g., "Genius works night and day and the antipodes do not affect it." Privately he admitted, "I'm damned if I could tell the difference between a hexameter and a pentameter to save my scalp...
...policies understood he occasionally forgot that some things not only go without saying, but are better left unsaid. At a press conference (TIME, Sept. 14), he said that it would be a disaster if Konrad Adenauer did not win the West German elections. This statement came too late to affect the elections either way, but it was a bobble none the less. At the same time, Dulles strongly intimated that he did not feel bound to hold to the pro-Italian Trieste policy which the U.S. had adopted over five years ago when Yugoslavia was still a Soviet satellite...
While working with the NLRB, Herzog gained an acute insight into the problems of labor and management. "Essentially the job was one of administrating the laws established by the Congress which affect labor. During the first two years of my span in the post I worked with the Wagner Act and spent the remaining six with the Taft-Hartley...
...goods is to increase [foreign manufacturers'] opportunity to have their goods admitted into the U.S. I think every shipload of consumers' goods that comes to these shores from Germany, Japan, India, Italy or elsewhere is going to lay idle a corresponding number of American workmen and affect American business in the same ratio...
...Livonia transmission plant (TIME, Aug. 24) will cost G.M. 75,000 cars this year, about 2½% of its scheduled 1953 output. Chevrolet cannot make enough Powerglide transmissions to supply Pontiac, and Buick cannot fill all of Cadillac's needs for Dynaflow transmissions. But the fire will not affect G.M.'s 1954 models, which will use transmissions made in rented quarters at Willow...