Word: affected
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Many issues involved in the strike particularly affect women, Kessler-Harris said. For example, she said, the institution of merit pay with no starting base wage not only undermines collective bargaining, but also has contributed historically to the abuse of women, who were particularly vulnerable to having pay withheld as a means of sexual harassment
Several hundreds of you graduating today have already enlisted in these battles, as future scientists or physicians. But the battle does not engage only those on the front lines. It will affect all of you. As worried patients, parents, and caretakers of parents. As taxpayers and good citizens of the world. And as thoughtful Harvard graduates, who know that science--like "no empire, no sect, no star" --can eventually change "the whole face and state of things throughout the world...
...annual report to the alumni and graduates at Commencement, President Neil L. Rudenstine also focused on science and technology, by discussing how the Internet will affect the structure of academia...
Compiling a list of the most influential people in America, besides being a provocative parlor game, provides a chance to mull over the ideas and visions, tastes and beliefs that affect our lives. Being influential is the reward of successful salesmanship, the validation of personal passion, the visible sign of individual merit. It is power without coercion, celebrity with substance...
...indication that a forthright discussion of something like the entitlements question is just down the road. What have become known as wedge issues--issues involving social concerns--have tempted politicians since the creation of Reagan Democrats in 1980. There is a particular appeal to wedge issues that affect few voters or (until a court in Hawaii rules on gay marriage, for instance) no voters at all. I've begun to think of those as wedge hypotheticals...