Word: affected
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...growing number of Spanish-speaking Americans has produced a powerful backlash among voters. Referendums declaring English the official language passed in Florida and Colorado; a similar initiative was leading in Arizona. Although it is not clear how the Florida and Colorado laws will affect daily life, the Arizona proposition instructs local governments and their employees to "act in English and in no other language...
With Jackson, instead of trying to hide him for a while (as if that would affect the people determined to vote against the Democrats because of race), Dukakis should have shared the platform with him, saying the Democratic Party has nothing to hide -- unlike the Republicans, who were smuggling Dan Quayle into grade schools where girls could squeal and boys could ask questions as dumb as the answers. By the time Dukakis began to respond, it was by desperately imitating Bush's first flag rallies and by producing mean copies of the Horton ad, substituting victims of the federal furloughs...
...level with one another. The result of the Question 5 referendum won't in the least affect our congressional delegation, nor will it influence the Israeli coalition negotiations or the plans of the PLO this month. What might happen now that the referendum is in the past is that each "side" will shift its focus to the results and interpret them as vindication, and then everyone will go back to not thinking about the issue very intensely and not doing anything constructive...
Stampfer's study received praise from a researcher who is also examining the affect of oral contraceptives on heart disease. "His is a very large study, [which was] well conducted. I think it's a pretty convincing study," said Lynn Rosenberg, director of the Slone Epidemiology Unit at Boston University Medical School...
Interviewed yesterday, Sen. Joseph Biden (D-Del.) pointed to "some of the moves taking place in the Soviet Union, and its affect on Europe in particular and the Third World in general," and said the New York meeting would give the president-elect "a significant opportunity...to take positive advantage" of them...