Word: affected
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Will the budget slashes affect the war on drugs? "We do not think there will be any effect," said White House Spokesman Larry Speakes. "If you buy the books, the chalk and blackboards and slide show this year, you probably don't need them again next year." Administration officials claim, as the President has emphasized, that the war is best fought primarily with moral rectitude and inspirational leadership, and only secondarily with money...
College alumni may no longer contact students who are being recruited for athletics. These restrictions affect Ivy League schools in particular whose alumni interview all prospective freshman...
...General Accounting Office last March produced some disturbing findings: an overwhelming 91% of controllers complained that the system does not have enough qualified controllers, 70% reported that they handle more traffic in peak periods than they should be required to accept, 69% claimed that their heavy workloads adversely affect air safety. In the fiscal year before the 1981 strike, controllers put in 377,000 hours of overtime; in 1985 they worked an extra 908,000 hours...
...thinking about politics and the virtues it demands. The victory of "People Power" made no dents in the larger issues that tower like Stonehenge sentinels over the planet. It has not shifted the superpower equation nor reduced the threat of nuclear war. But it has, perhaps, affected the people who affect the issues...
...shooting percentage has been very poor," Delaney Smith said. "We shoot poorly and then we let it affect the rest of our game...