Word: affected
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Maass is best known for his studies of Congress, in particular the mechanisms Congressional committees use to affect policy. But he stresses, "my academic life and scholarly life have two sides to them. I've done a lot of work going way back on ecological matters, particularly water...
Other looming issues Fellows cite also revolve around money. These include the skyrocketing costs of health care and how it will affect the Medical School and Harvard's affiliated hospitals. A related problem is the increasingly high cost of equipping professors, especially scientists. It costs $1 million to endow a professorship at Harvard, but a scientist's lab equipment may cost more than that...
Calkins says his favorite solution to making sure that everyone who is qualified feels comfortable applying to Harvard would be "a much bigger investment in forgiveness of loans for students who go into low-paying occupations. I think those debt loads are sufficiently large that they affect the career choices people make...
...like the trend of medicine to be organized by the corporations," Kolb said. "[If McLean affiliates,] it's going to make it easier for all of medicine to be swallowed up by the corporations. It doesn't really affect me because I'm at McLean, but it is going to affect the guy in Pocattella, Ind. who doesn't have the clout to say, 'let's affiliate, not be bought...
...decision, which also applies to minorities, could affect the procedures not just of legal but also of architectural, engineering, accounting and other professional firms that are organized as partnerships. Carol Dinkins, who was sworn in the day after the ruling as Deputy Attorney General, the highest Justice Department rank ever held by a woman, called the action "gratifying"; the department had in fact supported Hishon before the Supreme Court. But, warns Harriette Dorsen, a partner in a New York City firm: "I'm not sure what practical progress will be made. Partnerships can be awarded in ways so that...