Word: affected
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...airline strikes will not affect any of the Harvard Student Agency's chartered flights because HSA has no flights booked with United or National Airlines, an HSA spokesman said yesterday...
...proposed changes, which now await approval from the Faculty Council and Dean Rosovsky, would affect both present and future concentrators. Basically, they aim to provide relief to an honors program which is presently facing a financial squeeze...
...some of Peretz's critics charge that his ardent Zionism is giving the magazine a new kind of predictability, not only in its treatment of the Middle East, but the rest of the world. Disgruntled former members of the staff say his yardstick for all matters is how they affect Israel, that his hawkish position on Israel has had a ripple effect on other issues. One of them cynically suggests that the magazine be renamed "The Middle East..And the Rest of The World...
...kind of promissory gesture toward the liberalization demanded by opponents of Francoism, Juan Carlos last week granted a general pardon that will affect some 70% of Spain's prison population. The royal pardon, however, will apply to only about half the estimated 2,000 prisoners who are serving sentences or awaiting trial for political offenses. Among those the decree explicitly excluded were 250 or so prisoners who have been charged with crimes of terrorism, propagandizing for terrorism or membership in Communist and separatist groups condemned under the draconian legislation approved last July by the Franco regime. The death penalty...
...most common experiments - to lower blood pressure and end migraine headaches - have had mixed results. Biofeedback clearly can affect blood pressure. In one experiment, baboons were trained to maintain a large increase in pressure for 40 days. However, attempts to lower human blood pressure have generally not been significant or lasting outside the laboratory. Despite claims of 80% success, migraine research has been a headache for some biofeedback experimenters because of the placebo effect - a certain number of ailments vanish, not as a result of biofeedback but simply because the patient has faith in the method. Says Miller: "Many...