Word: affected
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...appealing to the public at large was only one prong of the campaign; there was another sharper one, aimed right where it would affect the legislators most strongly. That is, in the ballot box. Legislators had to be convinced that feeling was deep enough on this issue to cost them votes. And for this, Bernays uncorked what he refers to as the "Segmental Approach." He takes a minor aspect of one general cause and projects it to the major interest of particular group. Or as Bernays explains it, "if you project the Save Memorial Drive movement in terms of money...
...speech before the New York City bar association, King strongly suggested that civil rights groups have a right to defy law-if only because "they had no part in making" so many laws that affect Negroes. What the U.S. needs, King said, is a "divine discontent." He spoke of his own "maladjustment" to segregation, religious bigotry, the "madness of militarism" and "the self-defeating effects of physical violence," half-jokingly urged the formation of an "International Association for the Advancement of Creative Maladjustment...
Ever since the revolution that toppled Leftist João Goulart in March 1964, Brazil has been riven by an ugly power squabble that could drastically affect the future of Brazilian democracy. Taking advantage of the coup that landed a soldier, General Humberto Castello Branco, in the presidential palace, a hardline, right-wing military faction known as the linha dura has been busily purging state and local governments of every official whom they suspect of Communist sympathies or simple malfeasance-in many cases without benefit of judicial procedure. Last week the hard-liners were dealt a hard blow. It came...
...sellout of the country." Opposition parties expressed fear that normal relations would "bring Korea again under Japan's economic and political domination." In Tokyo, South Koreans paraded under a banner reading, "Don't sell our fatherland for cheap money." But such peripheral protests are not likely to affect the draft treaty, and both countries seem to have concluded realistically that neighbors living in the shadow of Red China had better be friends than enemies...
While man's exploration of space would be impossible without computers, the biggest changes worked by these remarkable machines are taking place right on earth. Just out of its teens, the computer is beginning to affect the very fabric of society, kindling both wonder and widespread apprehension. Is the computer a friend or enemy of man? Will it cause hopeless unemployment by speeding automation, that disquieting term that it has brought into the language? Will it devalue the human brain, or happily free it from drudgery? Will it ever learn to think for itself...