Word: affected
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Several sources close to the negotiations said the idea was favorably received in the group but no agreement was reached. There were doubts about the political viability of a move that could affect so many people...
Cancian said the shift can be seen as a move toa more moderate stand, but he said theramifications are radical because an economicmessage has the capacity to affect more people...
Americans, it may be, now need a leader to give them a sense of their coherence and their role in the world. "In those rare moments when the American people feel that the direction of their country is going to affect their private lives," says the historian and author Doris Kearns Goodwin, "they are engaged at a far deeper level." They need to reinvent themselves once again on a planet that has enormously changed in just a few years...
Attorney General Edwin Meese III. one ofGinsburg's most ardent supporters, said heapplauded Ginsburg's statement. "As he states, hisaction, taken during his younger days, was amistake. It certainly does not affect hisqualifications to sit on the Supreme Court, and heshould be confirmed expeditiously," Meese said...
...decide how last week's market turmoil will affect the U.S. economy, and indeed that of the entire world, he is Alan Greenspan, 61. As chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, the soft-spoken economic forecaster is the ultimate arbiter of the nation's credit supply and thus of the interest rates at which money is lent throughout the U.S. banking system. On the job less than three months, Greenspan is suddenly being forced to make rapid and delicate decisions to prevent the market crash from turning into a mushrooming financial collapse and to stave off a steep recession. Says...