Word: affections
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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However, whether or not certain amendments are added may not affect the future of the bill...
Miranda O. Yousef '98, leader of the Orthodox Christian Fellowship, said "I don't think a lot of Orthodox Christians are particularly aware of this," noting that it would not affect them because the Orthodox Church would not perform a religious rite for a same-sex couple...
...average fourth-grade class size from 26 to 32. It also pushed parents over the edge. Within days of hearing the news, a group of parents cobbled together $46,000 to cover the teacher's salary. When city schools chancellor Rudy Crew nixed the buyout, saying it would "adversely affect the opportunity for equity" among the city's schools, the parents went to court and took to the streets. After a week of rancorous meetings, the two sides struck a deal last Thursday that reinstated the teacher, Lauren Zangara, and returned the parents' money--but barred them from any future...
...there is anything that Bryant Gumbel seems innately incapable of, it is faking sentiment. (No one has forgotten his infamous 1988 memo rightly excoriating Willard Scott's Today show antics.) That could make it especially hard for Gumbel to compete in a newsmagazine world full of melodramatic affect and a sense of false earnestness...
...gunshot victims has reached such a high level of skill that little can be done to increase the survival rate. For this reason, he is looking to prevention as the best way to curb gunshot deaths. He and like-minded colleagues represent a new breed of physician eager to affect public policy about gun violence by using their special insights as healers. "The doctors realized people were being shot faster than they could sew them up," says U.C. Berkeley law professor Franklin Zimring, the "dean" of firearms-policy scholars. "So they decided to do something about...