Word: affection
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...will this affect market regulation? The President has picked Representative Christopher Cox of California, a former corporate lawyer and staunch supporter of business interests, to replace Donaldson. Cox will come under pressure from the business lobby to dilute a measure in Sarbanes-Oxley that requires that firms institute strong internal financial controls and have auditors assess their adequacy. "It has turned into a boondoggle for the accounting industry," contends John Berlau, a fellow at the pro-business Competitive Enterprise Institute, who cites an American Electronics Association study that put the cumulative costs of complying in the first year alone...
...troubling aspects to the real estate boom. At the stock market's peak, 1% of investors controlled about 33.5% of stock wealth; the top 1% of home-equity holders have only 13% of housing wealth. In other words, a broad drop in home values, should it happen, would affect a far larger cross section of Americans than did the NASDAQ bust...
...lack of sleep, the dehydration, the energy deficit and the physical battering that her body is enduring are starting to affect Rusch's mind. "You start hallucinating and falling asleep while on the bike," she says. "I've had vitamins in my hand and had them all turn into squirming bugs. In New Zealand one time, we were walking through a marsh in the middle of the night, and I saw a Vietnamese woman selling fruit at a little stand. I asked a teammate for some money to buy mangoes as I started to change course and walk toward...
...DOES THAT AFFECT THE WORLD'S VIEW OF ISRAEL'S HUMAN-RIGHTS RECORD...
Journalists strive to be influential. But there can't be many who would hope to affect events the way Newsweek has in Afghanistan. The anti-American street protests that erupted there earlier this month--after the magazine reported that a Pentagon investigation would support claims that guards at the U.S. detention center at Guantánamo Bay flushed a copy of the Koran down a toilet--left as many as 17 dead and scores injured...