Word: affected
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...midst of the uproar, while the Shah calmly set up housekeeping at his new haven, U.S. officials in Washington were trying to determine how his abrupt departure from the U.S. would affect the plight of the hostages. An answer soon came from Tehran, and then another and another. First, in their 74th communique of the crisis, the militants holding the U.S. embassy bluntly declared that "to reveal the treacherous plots of the criminal United States and for its punishment, the hostage spies will be tried." The same hard line was reflected in a banner headline by the newspaper Islamic Republic...
...will go for controls, most board members gave that prospect only a 20% to 40% chance. Carter first would need congressional authority and, as the debate raged on Capitol Hill, businessmen would rush to raise prices to get in under the wire. Further, board members argued, controls would not affect three major sources of price increases: OPEC; Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker, who does so much to set interest rates; and God, who creates the weather that determines the size of harvests...
...Movies are binary," George Lucas, who directed Star Wars, once said. "They either work or they don't." He meant that even if some elements fall below standard, that may not affect our overall feeling for a picture if something about it grabs hold of our consciousness. Lucas comes to mind because so much of the Disney studio's The Black Hole-an overpowering score, squads of menacing heavies and, especially, two adorable robots-are straight Star Wars steals, and because, despite all this sincere flattery and a script and performances that are merely adequate, the fool thing...
...York in April 1971. Two months later, in the most celebrated decision of his career, he ruled against the Government in its attempt to suppress the publication of the Pentagon papers, a highly classified report detailing U.S. involvement in Viet Nam. Its publication, wrote Gurfein, "would [not] vitally affect the security of the nation, except in the general framework of embarrassment. A cantankerous press must be suffered by those in authority in order to preserve freedom of expression and the right of the people to know...
...climbing in 1980, draining wealth out of the U.S. economy and into the bank accounts of foreign oil exporters. The price rise will help slow the consumption of gasoline still further, of course, but the inflationary impact will quickly spread throughout the whole economy, since crude oil price increases affect not just automotive fuel but all petroleum products. Enacting a gasoline tax would not only slow consumption while providing less inflationary pain, but would also soften the impact on the economy of future cartel price increases because less foreign oil would be entering...