Word: affections
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...their consumption preferences are polar opposites. So the two professors developed a model to explain why seemingly similar people make vastly different decisions. Their book, You Are What You Choose, explores how certain attributes - such as a willingness to take risks, or worrying about what others think - affect our choices. De Marchi and Hamilton talked to TIME about their model, what it can predict and why anyone would ever want to drive a Prius. (See TIME's photo-essay "Those Things Money...
...Dream’s External Relations Chair, Stephanie Delgado ’10, was quick to stress that immigration issues affect every student on campus, regardless of where they come from. “The immigrant is everyone,” she said. “If we really want to make a difference, we have to be united, not just as Latinos but as a community...
...effects of climate change in the Arctic may be a key part of understanding the puzzle of how climate change will affect the planet as a whole in the future,” she said, echoing many of the speakers...
...potentially dangerous step. No one knows exactly how a withdrawal will affect the tentative global economic recovery - just as it is not clear, even now, whether interest-rate cuts and huge stimulus spending in the U.S. and elsewhere are resulting in sustainable economic growth. The world is in uncharted territory. Policymakers are acting on the fly, without much in the way of historical precedence to guide them...
...both artist and audience. “I’m still exploring and trying to find out how I deal with being alive,” Escobedo says. “I get all of this bad stuff out through my work so it doesn’t affect me in my day-to-day life...