Word: affected
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...governing body's chief spokesman on shareholder issues, Hugh Calkins '45, said that whether or not a firm's activities in the country adhere to certain ethical principles does not affect Harvard's initial decision to invest in the company, which he implied was solely based on financial reasons...
...last week, the grass-roots questions had begun to affect Protestant institutions directly. At a closed-door meeting in Atlanta, President Finis Crutchfield and other executives of the Council of Bishops in the huge United Methodist Church took the unusual step of scrapping the agenda for the hierarchy's May meeting. Instead it will consider a demand that the church investigate whether church offerings are supporting questionable programs...
...Democratic Congressman Mike Synar. "The management and honesty of the EPA are the issues." Democrats will have ample opportunity to score further political points. Hearings were scheduled to begin this week in Congress on tightening up the laws governing waste disposal. The scandal's repercussions are likely to affect other environmental legislation, spurring Congress to reauthorize a passel of environmental measures that have lapsed and strengthen clean-air-and-water laws this session. Says Republican Senator John Chafee, a member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee: "This Administration will not want to be portrayed as lukewarm...
...white-and-blue bumper stickers have even sprouted declaring IACOCCA FOR PRESIDENT. Preposterous? Yes, preposterous. lacocca greatly enjoys the sound of his own voice and often pontificates on political and economic matters, especially as they affect Chrysler. But friends say he does not have the patience for politics, and he concurs. "I'm not interested," he says, and then, as if to explain how the stories start: "If you only talk cars, people say you're a provincial son of a bitch. If you're outspoken, then they say you are running for office." Quips Publisher Keith Crane of Automotive...
REACTIONS to Lianna's transformation cover only the extremes. Like her two children, Lianna's friends respond with either sullen avoidance or indifferent acceptance. The college football coach, a friend of Lianna's, does not mind homosexuality in his players as long as it doesn't affect their game. Lianna's female friend Sandy remembers with revulsion the time she held hands with Lianna. A colleague of Dick's, who discovers Lianna's new sexual orientation after she rejects him as a lover, asks no questions and tries to play it extremely cool. None of the characters bring anything...