Word: affectedness
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“Others, however, strongly support Hume’s greatness on the ground that the force of his personality definitely affected the age in which he lived. It is not a question of the cart before the horse in either case, merely a problem of which came first...
The photographs of relaxing western tourists, which have run in newspapers around the world, smack of gluttony, ignorance and even depraved indifference for human lives. World, and especially western, governments who have pledged billions in emergency relief cannot be satisfied by the contradictory message sent by hedonistic tourists carrying on...
Good intentions aside, when it comes to tsunami-affected resort areas, there’s only so much that private donations and corporate (and university) fund matching can fix.
Indeed, none of the affected nations are eager to send tsunami orphans abroad. Consulates, adoption agencies and relief organizations in Europe and across the U.S. have fielded hundreds of inquiries from people interested in adopting tsunami victims. The U.S. State Department, for its part, has placed a moratorium on adoptions...
“I don’t think it really affected things,” Cserny said. “It may have affected the game, but it didn’t affect the team.”