Word: affected
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Other Republicans echoed Ford's opinion that "there must be somebody less controversial who is equally qualified." It was also pointed out that this was a bad time for the President to antagonize usual allies on Capitol Hill. In the Senate, a shift of a single vote could affect the outcome of the anti-ballistic-missile controversy. In the House, Nixon needs conservative votes for his tax package...
...Brown v. Board of Education (1954), which outlawed racial segregation in the public schools. Separate schools for Negroes were "inherently unequal," ruled the court, because the system generates feelings of inferiority in the black children "that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone." Brown helped to prepare public opinion for a long series of civil rights bills and later court rulings that enforced laws against discrimination in voting, public accommodations and housing...
...home. Now the creditor must not only inform the consumer that there is such a lien but give him three business days after signing to think over the deal and cancel it if he chooses - a requirement that could create an awkward situation for morticians. "Z" will especially affect newspaper advertising...
...Barriers. However it is worked out, the textile controversy will affect the fabric of life in both nations, determining in part whether low-paid textile workers in the U.S. will be thrown out of jobs, whether inflation-weary U.S. consumers will have to pay more for their clothes, and whether the comfortably cooperative structure of Japanese industry will be changed and liberalized. More than that, the fight is likely to affect the future of the international movement toward freer trade...
Revolution, because it requires the concerted action of large numbers of people concentrated in ways that affect other people, is necessarily an institution, one which can be as stifling as a corporation...