Word: affected
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Brad himself, he's a quivering mess, shrill and childish, but so oppressed that he's meant to be sympathetic. It's hard to tell how much of this affect is in the character, and how much in Farnsworth's performance; suffice it to say that the first reference to Brad as being out of graduate school comes across totally incongruous, since up to that point he has seemed to be about 16. Everyone is so unpleasant that the play becomes painful; it's like watching twougly five-year-olds kicking a puppy...
...stimulate people's minds and to affect the way they think and act, but when I'm made the subject of the conversation, it becomes much more difficult," Gomes said. "If I wanted to be a celebrity, there are easier ways for me to do that than the ways that I have chosen...
...progress only contribute sclerosis. Critics roundly blamed bureaucratic ineptitude for the sluggish rescue response to last year's Kobe earthquake, which took more than 6,300 lives in the region. The same complaints were repeated last summer, when a food-poisoning epidemic in Sakai City, near Osaka, spread to affect nearly 5,800 people throughout the country. "If the politicians stick to the status quo, then we will lose our position in the world market," says Isamu Miyazaki, a senior adviser at the Daiwa Institute of Research. Competition from China and other fast-growing economies in Asia, as well...
...release also claims that universities often make administrative decisions based on how they will affect U.S. News rankings rather than how much they will improve the school...
...doubt [the contamination] will affect the Head of the Charles," said Peter H. Morgan, assistant coach of the men's varsity heavyweight crew. "Even though you get splashed, you're not swimming...