Word: affected
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...after the culprit, little Dewitt Jr., was found hidden away with a cache of skin magazines, Dewitt felt it was time for a little parental firmness. Medieval torture seemed appropriate, but perhaps might affect the boy's development. Capital punishment was out for the same reason. Not that Dewitt is predisposed towards an antipathetic view of youth; rather, simply, that he hates kids...
...confidence in their ability," Fish said. "I didn't know how it would affect our win-loss column...
Building highways will never be just another federal spending program. Few activities of government affect so many Americans daily, inspire such passion and profanity as those vast expanses of pavement stretching from horizon to horizon. That is why some White House aides believe Ronald Reagan was always doomed to lose last week's veto battle with the Senate. Was it the wrong war over the wrong issue at the wrong time? Wavering legislators, who once feared crossing the President, will not soon forget the day Reagan went hat in hand to the Senate needing one Republican vote and failed...
...proposal would have included restrictions on the controversial Simplex housing development near MIT. The city's new regulation does not affect that land. Community activists have insisted for the past two years that the site's owners should build low-income housing there...
...between two Protestant forces that have had little to do with each other -- Fundamentalism and the Pentecostal-charisma tic movement. But during an appearance in Cocoa Beach, Fla., last week, Falwell said he had another reason for acting: "If Heritage Village were to go down the tubes, it would affect every Christian person in America...