Word: affected
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While preparing the mailing, HBS was still in the process of admitting students, and students were still deciding whether to attend, though Olnick said that "did not directly affect" the administration's decision not to mail the April issue...
Reaction among the class of 2001 was universally positive, but the vast majority of students interviewed said the rankings did not affect their choice of fair Harvard...
...State Department is keeping the information (and the two senior diplomats who provided it) under tight wraps, but watch for the U.S. to give some indication of what it knows at tomorrow's peace talks in New York. A stone-faced State maintains the news will have no adverse affect on the delicate negotiations, but other officials are discreetly less sanguine...
Still, why should a regional phenomenon affect weather around the world? The reason, say scientists, is the extra heat. Like fresh coal tossed on a fire, it creates more and larger storms. And as the warm water spreads into the central and eastern Pacific, these storms inevitably follow in its path, moving the tropical storm belt from one part of the Pacific to another. The rearrangement has reverberations throughout the atmosphere, causing droughts in places as far-flung as northeastern Brazil, southern Africa and Australia, while other regions, from California to Cuba, can be hit by torrential rains. These effects...
...northern hemisphere's jet stream, for instance, can be expected to direct moisture-laden storms on a more southerly route over the U.S., while a nudge in the opposite direction will result in snow and rain farther north. But figuring out exactly how a particular El Nino will affect North America is no easy matter because particular effects can be amplified or reduced by other phenomena that are less well understood...