Word: affected
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...decisions made by Epps, Law, the faculty and the i.d. office were a model of efficiency, executed completely according to plan. The only trouble seems to have been that they didn't tell each other what would be going on, let alone ask students how these plans would affect them...
William DeJong, research director of SPH's Center for Health Communication, which is sponsoring the project, said the center hoped "to affect a fundamental shift in social norms, to effect a schism in people's minds between the act of drinking and the act of driving...
Although Harvard's affiliate housing is tax-exempt, the rents it receives do affect city revenues. For the past two decades the University has paid the city 11.11 percent of its annual rent income "in lieu of taxes." The payment came to $989,543 in fiscal 1988. Harvard also paid the city $2,561,642 on its taxable property...
Obviously a population explosion doesn't start hurricanes to form in the Carribbean, or natural floods in Bangladesh. But it does mean that when those things happen, they affect more people who are living in more densely populated areas. The days when a huge storm could develop, blow and dissipate without affecting a soul are long since gone. This explains how we can keep hearing about "worst-ever" disasters--if Jamaica or the coast of Texas are twice the population of what they were the last time a storm the size of Gilbert hit, then twice as many people will...
Meanwhile, library officials are preparing for the short-term adjustments that will inevitably result as students and faculty begin using the new terminals. They say there is no way to predict how many people will use the newly installed computers or how the technology will affect the research habits of the community as a whole...