Word: affected
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...time for seven million students and teachers to start taking steps to make decisions that affect their lives," the Student-Teacher Political Action Committee's statement says...
After a few more shows the cast may have settled on lines and cues which will undoubtedly affect individual performances. As things are now, David Odell is perfect as Berenger, the stoop-shouldered milksop supreme who stands alone against the herd. He is just the right amount of pot-bellied and high voiced; he shuffles without shame and is steeped in the divine oblivion of the truly noble and the godawful stupid...
...Roman Catholic bishops of the U.S. to protest last month against "coercive" federal programs (TIME, Dec. 2). Other critics complain that free federal contraceptive aid would be the biggest boon to promiscuity since the back seat of the automobile. Some black nationalists charge that birth-control programs, because they affect large numbers of Negro welfare recipients, are a plot to exterminate the black race...
...broader common interests." Rawls said that 2-S was a Faculty issue appropriate for a number of reason: because teachers help support the deferment system by ranks and grades; because the Selective Service Law is coming up for Congressional review; and because the consequences of the 2-S deferment affect the entire university community, not just individual Faculty members
Ranking is also detrimental to the educational system because (a) it intensifies competition for grades at a time when many colleges -- including Harvard -- are trying to de-emphasize their importance; (b) grades were never intended to affect in any way the military status of a student; (c) grades are not a solid criterion for selection of recruits since they very so wildly among professors, departments, and colleges; (d) self-protective grade-grubbing in many cases may inhibit intellectual experimentation -- a student will hesitate to take a course that he might not do well in, but in which he might...