Word: affected
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reagan, in his heart, remains an outsider. It is a conceit that irritates some of his critics, especially those who believe in the power of government to affect lives for the better. Here is Reagan, still getting away with a campaign gambit, divorcing himself from any governmental action, even his own, that seems unpopular. He has an eerie gift for distancing himself from failures, for behaving, in a bizarre and cagey act of dissociation, as if what he had just done had nothing much to do with him, as if it had just vanished into the air, passed into nonexistence...
There was a consensus, however: that SDI called for decisions that might crucially affect the world's future. Said Nitze in his closing remarks: "I don't believe that the younger generation looks forward to having its grandchildren face the threat of mutual destruction. I don't believe that's a thing that generation after generation is going to want to live with...
Giamatti said his lack of baseball experience would not affect how he performs the duties of his new office. "Anyone who is president of a major university has close contact with organized sports," Giamatti, Yale's president for eight years, said...
...dealt with an unending stream of problems, but also for students who have suddenly had a taste of what it might be like to have significant input in College decisions. There's a sweet taste to the concept that students could have a real voice in the policies that affect their lives. But dear as the dream might be, the year has also proven that the goal of student control has not been met and there's still a long road to be travelled...
Though administrators and masters have been fairly successful in enforcing the new policy, it is still difficult to gauge how the drinking regulations will affect campus social life...