Word: affected
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...beginning to reshape itself to accommodate women. The pressure is largely an unforeseen by-product of the VCR revolution. Males who once trekked to sleazy inner-city theaters began to take porn videotapes home. Wives and lovers started to make their opinions felt, and their voices began to affect the market...
...almost instinctive sense of what the human race is like and how it functions. "Visions," says Sowell, "are the foundations on which theories are built." The constrained vision imagines people basing all their acts on self- interest and having only a very limited ability to affect their surroundings; the unconstrained vision sees people being guided by reason and always able to improve things. To put it another way, the unconstrained see human beings as perfectible, the constrained as forever flawed. The constrained vision, as expressed by Adam Smith or Alexander Hamilton, seeks trade-offs; the unconstrained vision, as in John...
...decision is the lightest one that the UCSA can give, short of finding the students innocent. Being on probation will not affect the students' permanent records unless they commit further infractions this semester...
...made students feel a little more in power, like they can affect university policy," she said...
These conclusions may affect proposed legislation in more than 30 states, including Massachusetts, requiring AIDS screening for couples seeking a marriage license, said Lawrence Gostin, a member of the six-person committee which authored the study and a senior research fellow at the School of Public Health...