Word: affected
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...preacher and more the educator. His speeches have become more substantive, detailing policy, not promises. He is at once more flexible and firmer. He can knock back a couple of bourbons at night with a man he likes. Ruefully he has admitted to himself that Georgetown gossip can affect his leadership. He is developing personal intuition about individual congressional leaders like Danny Rostenkowski, whose virtuosity is that he can count votes...
...subject, I will not pretend to be competent enough to debate the sociobiologists on their own grounds, nor did I attempt to do so in my piece. I did attempt, however, to expose some of the philosophical assumptions and value-judgements implicit in the study of how genes affect human behavior and society. Not simply judgments about the ultimate value of science--which most scientists seem to accept a priori, forgetting that science arose merely as a means of satisfying basic human needs--but judgments about the necessity of a field of study that quite ostensibly sets out to study...
...most adamant supporters of this climate of opinion is Indian Prime Minister Moraj Desai. In a meeting last year with Hunger Project officials he said, "It is not only possible, it is going to happen, it is going to happen here and it is going to affect the whole world...
Proponents of the Constitution dismiss the idea of a student union as a romantic relic of '60s fervor. They are wrong. The student union approach is the most realistic and pragmatic way students can affect Harvard's cold, corporate decisions. It guarantees the most widespread mobilization of student opinions and pressure on the larger issues, and it focuses student influence in the Houses, dorms and departments, all of which the Constitution overlooks. The student union idea concentrates on the power realities at Harvard, not on sandboxes and soapboxes...
Lyman said she does not know how many Radcliffe students the cut in funds will affect...