Word: affectedness
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The United Nations founded UNICEF in 1946 as a part of relief efforts for post-World War II Europe. Since then, the international agency's work has shifted from emergency assistance to sustainable development, although it still provides aid to areas affected by war or natural disaster.
"I think Tommy's [House of Pizza] will be theone most affected by the dining hall's beingopen," he said.
"Children are affected by the same time crunch that affects their parents," says Sandra Hofferth, the sociologist who headed the study. A chief reason, she says, is that more mothers are working outside the home. (Nevertheless, children in both dual-income and "male breadwinner" households spent comparable amounts of time...
Because it's a secretive process, the number of white families with black ancestors who passed is hard to estimate, though historians suspect the number is sizable. Shirlee Taylor Haizlip, author of Sweeter the Juice, a book about relatives who passed as white, says she has received 40,000 letters...
Zwick had been inspired by the World Trade Center bombings and he wanted to explore "the way that societies have been affected in dealing with terrorism, both in terms of civil liberties and law enforcement." But how unlikely would it be for our government to turn its armed forces against...