Word: affectedly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...means in his beautiful ballad The Promise, when he sings about making "my peace with the past." He dropped The Promise from his new album, fearing that it could be narrowly interpreted as a comment on his legal hassles, which he believes have been credited with "too much affect on my writing." He performs the song in concert, though, and its dour, defiant spirit haunts the album nonetheless...
...reason for this apparent schizophrenia is simple: Tsongas has approved cuts that did not affect Massachusetts jobs, but kept hands off programs that provide jobs for residents of the Commonwealth--especially residents of the Fifth District...
...conflicting views of his two key foreign policy advisers: Cyrus Vance, who generally favors dealing with Moscow in a quiet and conciliatory manner, and National Security Affairs Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, who by and large advocates a tougher line. The Vance-Brzezinski differences, though firmly denied by the White House, affect much of the handling of foreign policy. Brzezinski's aides are often angry over what they regard as the State Department's unresponsiveness, its constant leaks and its ill will toward them. State Department officials feel much the same about...
...Anatoli Shcharansky. But Vance vowed as before not to link the new Soviet-American controversy with the arms negotiations. When several Senators publicly urged him to postpone his trip, an unusually tense Vance replied: "The imperatives to go to Geneva now are that we are dealing with negotiations that affect the national security of our nation and the well-being of the world." There was, however, no sharing of meals or social mixing with the Soviets in Geneva last week. The atmosphere between the countries was too strained to permit the clinking of champagne glasses or the exchange of vodka...
...billion, United's orders are by far the largest transaction in aviation history. But they are only the beginning, and they affect far more than just the airlines. Aircraft sales abroad are one of the U.S.'s largest export items, and without them the nation's trade balance would suffer disastrously. Plane sales are also a matter of national pride, and for the first time ever, the U.S.'s dominance of civil aviation is being seriously challenged by European governments, which are pressing their state-owned airlines to buy jets made by their own industries. Until...