Word: affectedness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nearly 160,000 telephone operators, installers and repair workers in 15 states launched strikes last week against three regional U.S. telephone companies: Bell Atlantic, NYNEX and Pacific Telesis. While direct-dial calls in the affected regions were handled smoothly by automatic switching equipment, customers encountered delays in getting directory assistance...
The plan was presented to Cabinet officers whose departments would be affected. This second group narrowed down the options. The Cabinet postponed one meeting with Bush after the EPA's Reilly, in a move supported by Boyden Gray, argued for an idealistic plan that would have required half the cars...
The artful equivocation is an almost impossible concept to explain, but it is easy to demonstrate. Let us take our earlier typical examination question, "Did the philosphical beliefs of Hume represent the spirit of the age in which he lived?" The equivocator would answer it in this way: "Some people...
The polls can be surprising as well as illuminating. Before the presidential election, for instance, TIME surveys about G.O.P. contenders revealed an undetected support for George Bush that presaged his march to the White House. And a TIME poll taken after the stock-market crash of 1987 showed that contrary...
The scrolls that have appeared so far are important to both specialists and ordinary believers. Previously unknown texts like the Manual of Discipline (which listed commune-like rules of an ancient Jewish sect) and the Psalms of Thanksgiving (a devotional collection) have given historians new insight into ancient Jewish life...