Word: affected
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Although you'd think that eBay's flagship marketplace business, a site where people go to buy and sell stuff, would flourish in a downturn, it has stopped growing. It's still unclear how badly the credit crisis and buying slowdown will affect an e-commerce value site like eBay, which does half its business outside the U.S. During the 2001 recession, eBay's marketplace continued to thrive because of its Web dominance and discounted goods. Whitman at the time even crowed that "eBay is to some extent recession-proof...
...School. “I became frustrated with what I could do from a journalistic perspective, and decided that I want a different set of tools,” Long said. “Law school for me is about gaining those tools—figuring out how to affect change from an advocacy standpoint and from a legal standpoint...
...main African organizations with leverage over events in Zimbabwe are the African Union, which has peacekeepers in Darfur and Somalia, and the Southern African Development Community, which has overseen the stalled power-sharing talks between Mugabe and the MDC. The African country with the most power to affect change in Zimbabwe is South Africa, which supplies Zimbabwe's electricity and is the landlocked country's main link with the outside world. But political infighting in the ruling African National Congress has left South Africa without a clear policy on Zimbabwe, a situation unlikely to change before next spring's general...
...There was little change in either team’s lineup in the game’s final periods, despite the fact that both Kenyi and Lin entered extra time with four fouls each, one short of expulsion. The toil of long minutes seemed to affect the players, as each team missed shots in its first two possessions of the second overtime. It wasn’t until Huskies junior Manny Adako banked in a jumper that more points were tallied, as Northeastern went up, 68-66, with 2:40 to play in the period...
...larger theme in Gladwell’s new book “Outliers.” In the book, Gladwell argues that this crash of a flight from Colombia to New York, which resulted in 73 deaths, was caused, at least in part, by how cultural differences affect the way people act—even the way some fly planes. Colombians have a “high index of power distance,” according to Gladwell, which is a term from cross-cultural psychology describing the hesitancy of underlings to question superiors. This cultural phenomenon caused the Colombian...