Word: affected
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although bad weather conditions hampered play--cutting the distance of the field by 20 yards--they did not affect the players' attitudes...
...defining our policies on these matters, the faculty must play a prominent role, since policies relating to secrecy affect the nature of their research, their teaching, even their consulting. Faculty members have the experience to understand the varied circumstances in which issues of secrecy arise. Since a university cannot enforce regulations on secrecy without a degree of surveillance unsuited to an academic institution, its policies will have little effect unless they are backed by a peer pressure that can result only from common understandings built through informed discussion. Of necessity, moreover, the rules the University adopts only define minimum obligations...
Apart from being a bit rusty, "the weather may affect B.U. because they are used to a 'perfect' field and have many more warm-weather players," Shattuck said...
...inevitable," this proposition does not necessarily entail the apocalyptic conclusions that are often drawn from it. Failures need not be large ones that lead to extinction of the species. Even if a large failure is inevitable, that inevitability may come after thousands of years. What we do now can affect these outcomes...
...better to defend than to avenge," but only if the consequences of trying to defend do not increase the risk of nuclear conflict in the meantime. Those consequences are likely to be determined not by our intentions, but by the technology chosen. How will it affect crisis stability and the political state of American-Soviet relations (will the introduction of defense be in a cooperative or antagonistic setting...