Word: affections
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Crimson did not allow the difference to affect them. In fact, the team viewed it as good practice for later tournaments against more competitive teams...
...question the extent to which the positions Sen describes (consultants, entry-level managers, etc.) aid in this purpose. In a country where more than 80 percent of corporate stock is owned by 5 percent of the population, I wonder if balancing Merrill Lynch's checkbook has any direct affect on a poor family...
...crowd of curious viewers, "Now we add sight to sound." Sarnoff went on to say, "It is with a feeling of humbleness that I come to this moment of announcing the birth in this country of a new art so important in its implications that it is bound to affect all society. It is an art which shines like a torch of hope in the troubled world. It is a creative force which we must learn to utilize for the benefit of all mankind. This miracle of engineering skill which one day will bring the world to the home also...
Most of us have inhaled. Or if we haven't yet, we will. The more powerful we become, the more likely it will be that our decisions will affect other people's lives-and the more likely it will be that we will have the ability to escape responsibility for those decisions. Many of us grew up being told at every turn that we are exceptional. We expect to win contests, to become influential, to get what we want. When things don't work out for us, we tend to blame our failures on the system that rejected us instead...
...Ritalin is not a panacea. It won't boost IQ or take away the learning disabilities that affect 15% of youngsters with ADHD...