Word: affected
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...speeded up; death row is too long." This argument holds that a central reason for conducting an execution is the shock value, the satisfyingly swift and sure justice of the chair. Society must rid its vilest elements in good part as a catharsis for those that they most directly affect. Besides, the state could save money: the long death row process of appeals and incarceration adds to an already costly punishment...
Second, for one weekend a year, we can do "what most of America does all the time": we can "get involved in something that has nothing to do with us and whose consequences do not affect our lives in the least...
...Undergraduate Council will only become a relevant and legitimate part of the College community if it begins to address the issues that most significantly affect life at Harvard. This year, we have an unparalleled opportunity to make fundamental changes in Harvard's curriculum; your student government should fight to reduce the number of concentration requirements, eliminate the "grading gap," and engage the Faculty on the question of section sizes. Your student government should actively seek alternative sources of funding to increase the amount of money available to student groups, and it should press the administration to provide space...
...might affect the extent of the grant in the future, [however]," he says...
Accordingly, several points of the law, both preventative and punitive, could affect foreign students and scholars now residing in the United States...