Word: affected
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...voter registration. While traditional groups like the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and the League of Women Voters remain on the scene, the past three years have seen a proliferation of new groups and strategies-from both ends of the political spectrum-hoping to affect the 1984 election by registering voters...
...adding names to the voter rolls. Project VOTE, for instance, is an organization that tries to enlist low-income voters by setting up registration tables in food stamp and unemployment lines and housing projects. "We tell them that the social programs--for which they are in line--being cut affect poor people and minorities, and that their failure to register and vote has elected those responsible," says Alan Raby, an official with the program. Efforts like these, moreover, are being helped no end by the Jackson candidacy. "You've never had a Presidential candidate who has put this kind...
...civil rights enforcement and its budget cuts have exacerbated it. Yet even if a sympathetic Democrat such as Walter Mondale were to win office in 1984, the outlook for the Black poor still appears quite bleak. For the reinstatement of the traditional civil rights policies will probably not affect a large number of Blacks who will most likely remain below the poverty line, locked outside the mainstream of American society...
...inspection on a few minor treaties and will agree to a major treaty with inspection if the treaty is properly negotiated. Some people say that it is impossible to insure that the Soviets do not build a few extra missiles in secret factories. However, a few missiles will not affect the strategic balance. What will affect the balance is a massive buildup by one side. This is probably impossible given the fact that satellites are so advanced in these modern times. Even twenty years ago, with much less sophisticated equipment, we were able to discover the Cuban missiles...
...being based in Western Europe can reach the Soviet Union in ten minutes. This offers the same type of security risk that the Cuban missiles posed to the United States. The Soviet Union's SS-20s are also a dangerous threat to NATO. Not to consider these missiles to affect the strategic balance is ridiculous...