Word: affected
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...There will be more than sufficient funds, after paying the salaries, to pay the rebates," Gaither said. He added that delivery staff "will get their wages," and the money spent on reimbursements "will just affect the overall net profits" of the agency...
LEASING TROUBLES. In 1971, the Sierra Club sued the Interior Department to force it to describe the environmental effects of mining in the Northern Great Plains. The environmentalists wanted to know how mining would affect water supplies, how the now sparsely populated region could absorb the expected horde of 516,000 residents and how the land could be returned to its original uses. As the case wound through the courts, Interior declared a moratorium on the leasing of public lands in the West. That denied mining companies much of the potential coal supply since it lies below federally owned soil...
Shortly after her divorce, Nina Vidal married Hugh D. Auchincloss, a wealthy broker and the squire of Merrywood, a handsome Virginia estate. Despite the trauma that this union occasioned, it gave Vidal two tenuous family connections that were to affect his career: Auchincloss's mother was Emma Brewster Jennings, a descendant of Aaron Burr; and, after he and Vidal's mother were divorced, Auchincloss married Mrs. Janet Bouvier, the mother of the future Jacqueline Kennedy...
...something special" in the Harvard Band; Mr. Stedman singles out Section 18. Mr. Aronson cannot find fault with the team, however, because for the first two and a half periods Harvard skated circles around their opponents, building up a two goal advantage. A "quiet" crowd did not seem to affect their performance then. The team proceeded to quickly squander their lead, which according to Mr. Aronson, was the band's fault. Would Mr. Aronson have praised the band if Harvard had hung on to win? I think not! For that matter, how often is the band, Section...
...exams fell during days of "premenstrual tension." She also reported that about half of female job absenteeism, suicides, police arrests, traffic accidents and admissions to mental hospitals occurred in the four days before and four days after the onset of menstruation. Her conclusion: the physical changes of menstruation can affect judgment and slow reaction time...