Word: affected
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...Press Secretary Ron Nessen berated reporters for neglecting the President's accomplishments in office to spotlight his unfortunate footwork outside the White House. Last week syndicated Columnist Max Lerner, a liberal, added a complaint that the press has created an undeserved "ordeal of ridicule" for Ford that "will affect not only his personal showing against Reagan, which isn't so important for the nation, but also the Administration conduct of foreign and domestic policy, which is." Americans, said Lerner, "can afford to distinguish between hard slugging on policy decisions and unfair attacks of a personal character...
...amply detailed. Scores of others might be added to the list?distinguished lawyers, economists, business executives, actresses, writers. For example, Economist Alice Rivlin, chief of the new Congressional Budget Office, has taken on the tough job of analyzing for Senators and Congressmen just how their legislation will probably affect national spending, budget deficits, prices and employment. Sarah Caldwell, the formidable director of the Opera Company of Boston, week after next will become the first woman to conduct at the New York Metropolitan Opera (TIME, Nov. 10). Journalist Charlotte Curtis wields powerful political influence as editor of the New York Times...
During his 21 months as Washington's Ambassador to Ottawa, William Porter, 61, earned the respect of many Canadians as a concerned professional envoy. He traveled frequently through the country, mixed easily with its citizens, gave thoughtful and discreet talks about issues that jointly affect Canada and the U.S. But last week, as Porter left Ottawa to take up a new post as Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau angrily told a cheering House of Commons that Porter had gone beyond "the acceptable bounds within which an ambassador should stay." In a singular diplomatic snub, ministers...
Even some Committee members have doubts. Reid Hastie, assistant professor of Psychology and a member of the CUHS, says, "The Committee does affect the kind of research that's done, and I think often those effects are bad. I don't think people should be cowed...
...CUHS has enormous power to affect psychology research, but Pattullo prefers to emphasize deference and compromise. "We've always been able to work out changes in the procedure," he says, "or the investigator has been able to be persuaded to do something else." Here Pattullo emphasizes "persuaded" -- not, he says, "intimidated...