Word: affections
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...senator introduced legislation to up disclosure requirements for industry payments to doctors last Thursday, the latest salvo in a national debate over ties between academic medicine and industry that could affect politices at the Medical School and its many affiliates...
...power of Kurdish politicians in assemblies representing the disputed areas - Kurds are currently overrepresented relative to their share of the population, say U.S. officials, because Sunni Arabs largely boycotted the 2005 election. A more representative turnout will probably change the local balance of power, which could in turn affect the future negotiations over the status of these areas. That's why local Kurdish leaders are going to great lengths to get out the vote. A high-ranking Kurdish official in Diyala's Khanaqin district said thousands of voters would be bussed down from Suleymaniya province in Kurdistan to cast their...
Some of us, of course, will believe that change when we see it. Maybe we're the ones Obama had in mind when he said, "What the cynics fail to understand is that the ground has shifted beneath them." Whether Obama can affect that shift--and where those tectonic plates carry him, and us--is the next big story of our frightened, giddy culture...
...Harvard’s Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Allan M. Brandt declined to comment on application numbers and how the financial crisis might affect Ph.D. admissions...
...does the President's personality or the country's mood affect the parade? Take Dwight Eisenhower. He was a military man with a no-nonsense personality, so it was a very conservative parade. Basically, he said, "Look, each state will be limited - one float, one band and one military unit, and that's it. No big deal." And it wasn't. The parade took just two hours...