Word: affected
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...this election season heats up, California's propositions, this time on term limits for U.S. Representatives and bilingual education, are again in the news. Yet despite all this seeming success, these chances for Californians to directly affect state law and national attitudes at the ballot box, I am pessimistic about the current state of propositions and urge the need for all those who follow the propositions to consider the need for their reform. Before taking sides on the propositions, political analysts and Californians like me should reflect on how the initiative system has been abused and needs our help...
...know how this loss is going to affect our chances [in the NCAA Tournament]. I don't think we deserve a 16th seed, but we have no one to blame but ourselves if we get it. The lesson you learn is you have to prepare much better, regardless of the set of circumstances...
...Undergraduate Education (CUE) exclude any representatives of the group that spends the most time in the closest contact with undergraduates as teachers and advisers (News, Feb. 26)? The committee includes deans, Faculty and undergraduates, but no graduate students. Any change in undergraduate education at Harvard will not only affect, but it will most likely be effected by, graduate students, in their roles as teaching fellows, concentration tutors and advisers, and House tutors. It is foolish to exclude their input. It may be difficult to choose graduate students for CUE. Aside from House Tutors, few graduate students are assured a position...
...education if it doesn't allow students a voice in determining both the form and content of that education. And this means giving students the chance to teach themselves--which is itself a political education. It means getting together to talk among ourselves about how things in the world affect our lives as students, and about how what we do as students affects the rest of the world...
...multi-million dollar project is expected to take two years and will affect every one of the library's 3.2 million volumes. Despite the fact that fundraising efforts for the project have lagged, the University plans to go full steam ahead--after a nine-month planning process is completed in the fall...