Word: affected
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...Harvard spring mainly from three years of taking Core and department courses in history, government and economics--three of the most important areas of study at the College. These areas seem to be the most plagued by reactionary ideology and a myopic view of America, problems that do not affect other fields of study, such as physics or fine arts, quite so directly...
Even so, despite activism by Edelman and her allies, most political leaders still don't do what she wants them to do: ask, every time they cast a vote or cut a dollar, "How will this affect kids?" And even if they did, they would not necessarily answer the question Edelman's way because of the growing sense, embraced by both major presidential candidates, that government has its limitations. "Read between the lines of everything Marian Wright Edelman says, and what you get is this," says Robert Rector of the conservative Heritage Foundation. "The problem affecting kids is material poverty...
...Clinton: The current [Republican] legislation would create a right for individual parents to make decisions that would affect not only their own child but other children as well. I believe there should be parental opt-outs if you don't want your child attending a certain health class, say, about sex education. But I don't think that gives parents who object to it on behalf of their own children the right to prohibit other parents who think it is in line with their values for their children to be given such information. Or that parents who on religious grounds...
...Just worrying about whether salt can raise BLOOD PRESSURE seems enough to make anyone hypertensive. Now, more confusion. A U.S. study finds that in healthy people, salt does not affect blood pressure; a British study concludes that it does--especially in middle-age adults...
...lower courts. In a friend-of-the-court brief submitted by Senator Orrin Hatch, fifty-four members of Congress urged the court to rule in favor of the law, arguing that it does not cut into the judicial power of the high court. A decision, which could affect some 3,000 inmates, is expected some time later this month. -->