Word: affected
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nation where politicians affect superior airs, Shastri is modest and retiring. Among a people given to rhetoric and ritual, he is concrete and practical. In a land reverencing charismatic leadership and far-reaching intellect, he looks like a messenger boy and disparages his own brain. Above all, he is reassuringly rational. Though he fights corruption, he does so with intelligence and compassion, well aware that badly paid public servants will invariably be tempted by bribes...
Though the decision will not affect the damage cases that have already been settled, it may well prompt other customers to take their claims to court. Between 800 and 1,000 cases are still outstanding. Most are small, but at least two substantial claims will be brought by the Midwest's American Electric Power and Michigan's Consumers Power. The Philadelphia decision will be appealed by General Electric and Westinghouse, and probably by the other defendants. But the appeals alone could tie them up in costly litigation for years...
...admissions and financial aids, explained the admissions process. David E. Owen, Gurney Professor of History and Political Science, who retires this summer as Master of Winthrop House, outlined the changes which have occurred in the House system since 1939. Dean Ford discussed the pressures for specialization which today affect liberal arts colleges, and the General Education Program, which he said, is Harvard's attempt to deal with these pressures...
Last year the service was moved from Sunday to Monday. Dean Watson said the change did not affect the general level of attendance, which has been falling for several years...
...General De Gaulle may scuttle those negotiations, but the chief U.S. tariff negotiator, Christian Herter, was uncharacteristically pessimistic. It became clear at Vienna that unless the U.S. and Europe can resolve their immediate conflicts, the march toward Western economic unity may be set back in a way that would affect the pocketbooks of everyone who buys anything from Japanese cameras to German Volkswagens...