Word: affective
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Barack Obama's great insight is to blame "speculators" for raising oil prices artificially. This could even be true, but if so, it's irrelevant. Speculators cannot affect the price of oil in the long run. What speculators do is get us to the long run sooner. If they think underlying forces of supply and demand will ultimately result in oil at $200 per bbl., they will bid up the price until it is close to $200 per bbl. already. Similarly, if speculators think the price of oil will go down, they will drive it down more quickly. So, actually...
Premature menopausal symptoms like those Cari is experiencing are another recently discovered consequence of the premutation. Known formally as primary ovarian insufficiency, it is believed to affect about 20% of female carriers...
...Scheunemann said, is "that for Senator Obama the most important issue in the election is the political fortunes of Senator Obama. He has demonstrated that there really is no position he holds that isn't negotiable or isn't subject to change depending on how he calculates it will affect his political fortunes...
Carlin was a product of the counterculture era in lifestyle as well as comedy. His drug use became so heavy in the mid-'70s that it began to affect his health (he had a heart attack in 1978, the start of heart problems that would eventually kill him) and his career as well. "I really wasn't being as creative," Carlin admitted years later. "I lost years. I could have been a pole vaulter in those years, and instead I was kind of like doing hurdles...
...What we're deciding here will affect actors for a generation," says Doug Allen, SAG's national executive director and chief negotiator. "The notion that the [Directors Guild of America], [Writers Guild of America] and SAG should all get the same deal is not fair. What's good for directors is not necessarily good for actors...