Word: affections
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Surgeon General Leroy E. Burney made this statement because of PHS concern "with broad factors which substantially affect the health of the American people." He was careful to add that "smoking is not the only cause of lung cancer." Therefore, "more research is needed to identify, isolate and try to eliminate the factors in excessive cigarette smoking which can cause cancer...
...result, North American said it might have to lay off 15% of its work force at the Missile Development, Rocketdyne and Autonetics divisions in the Los Angeles area-10,000 employees in all. While the Navaho cut will not affect North American's balance sheet greatly in its current fiscal year (ending Sept. 30), it will mean a 15% or more reduction in the company's $1 billion annual sales in future years unless the company finds a replacement soon...
Pivot of the turnabout was Arkansas' hardworking, international-minded Brooks Hays, whose plight showed how personal pressures and preoccupations can affect the voting of even a highly conscientious legislator. Hays had been so busy with the unfamiliar duties and responsibilities of his new post as lay president of the Southern Baptist Convention that he could find little time to do his homework on the new foreign-aid program. On the committee's first go-round, he instinctively voted against a sharp departure from Congress' customary practice of year-to-year authorizations for foreign aid. But Hays felt...
...places. Its surface is covered with rapidly moving fluids. Its atmosphere swirls with big and little storms. Its oceans are stirred by currents. Its solid crust shakes like jelly, and its plastic interior probably flows slowly in largely unknown ways. Influence? from the sun and beyond the sun affect the passive earth. Cosmic rays from the depths of space beat upon it, and meteors plunge like fireflies into its atmosphere. Its magnetic field fluctuates slightly; so does its gravitation. Scientists are sure that all these changes and influences are interconnected in intricate ways, but no one knows just how, because...
...increases-which amount to only $11.58 on a $3,000 car, 66? on a $300 refrigerator-rather than raise prices; others may delay price increases for many months. A spokesman for one of the big three automakers said, for example, that he did not expect the steel increase to affect the price of 1958 models (though labor and other costs may raise the price...