Word: affected
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rearrangement of breakfast service will affect far fewer than half the students in the houses, since only around 45 per cent of all upperclassmen take breakfast, and fewer still avail themselves of the full menu [entree, hot cereal] currently offered," Fox said in his memorandum...
Dawkins has gotten much too wrapped up in his theories of genetic determinism to admit that cultural and environmental influences also affect behavior. This seems to be stylish these days. Scientists like E. O. Wilson, the author of Sociobiology, and William Shockley, newly elected member of the Academy of Sciences, and their biological explanations are gaining increased respectability...
What are the controllers' thoughts when tension builds? Says Charles Cacace, 33, a controller at New York City's J.F.K. Airport: "You don't look at an airplane as if it were carrying 300 people. It would affect the way you do your job. Makes you nervous...
...reinforce this attitude, Carter opened his press conference by noting that he has been criticized for taking "issues-that affect foreign policy directly to the people." There has been concern that his public statements on arms limitation talks and the Middle East have gone too far, that they could impede diplomatic negotiations. But Carter remains convinced that by sharing the business of the nation with the nation, he can win both public and congressional support and strengthen his own hand in foreign affairs. Said he: "It is good for us, even in very complex matters, when the outcome of negotiations...
...life. Breezin', Benson's 1976 LP, turned the trick for the guitarist-singer. He took the premier spot on the jazz, rock, soul and easy-listening charts. His name began cropping up on network TV. George bought a Mercedes. He was a star. How did success affect his music? If anything, it improved it. In Flight is his finest album so far. The material spans a wide stylistic range, from Benson's silky vocal on the Nat "King" Cole classic Nature Boy to the disco-danceable Valdez in the Country...