Word: affected
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President has not perceived that the tactics he mastered so well the Senate are not applicable to his dealings with the nation's press. On Capitol Hill he dealt with a group that accepted his strategems and was powerless to affect his Texas political fortunes. In the White House he must deal with the nation's press, not a group of colleagues. And he must also remember, although it rankles him, that what is written about him, and what is suppressed, sometime may shape as much public opinion as all those somber, reassuring speeches...
...without giving it up." Gill said that it was his impression that the system had been modified in weeks to pay more attention to students' requests for particular Houses and the Masters' requests for particular students. But he noted that "how substantial substantial has to be" would still clearly affect the degree of choice allowed to freshmen and Masters...
...cost of the tax credit to the treasury has been estimated at $ 1 billion a year. Ribicoff pointed out in a speech Friday that since the credit would first be available on the returns submitted in 1968, it would not affect the amount of revenue raised for the Vietnam during...
Still another type of pollution -- "thermo-pollution" -- threatens the Charles. Thermo-pollution does not present very great dangers to public health, but it does affect the wildlife in the river. It involves the with-drawal of water from the river, its circulation through a plant or building (a process which often raises the water's temperature and changes its oxygen content) and its discharge back into the river. The changed character of the water can mean increased growth of bacteria and algae, as well as death to fish...
Even a climatic change can affect the rate of rotation. When the earth's weather becomes warmer, for example, some of the ice concentrated at the North and South poles melts, releasing water into the world's oceans. The mass of ice near the earth's axis of rotation is reduced, and the amount of water in the oceans (which are farther from the axis) is increased. As a result, the earth's moment of inertia becomes greater and-like a twirling ice skater who moves his arms out from his body -its speed of rotation...