Word: affective
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...Crimson struggled to find offensive rhythm out of the gate. Cornell looked a step too quick for Harvard, and pushed a frenzied pace en route to an eight-point lead—the largest margin either team would enjoy all night. Big-game jitters seemed to affect the Crimson, which failed to convert easy opportunities around the basket early on. “We were just trying to settle it down—it was a matter of nerves,” Knox said. “We tried to focus on defense—that’s where...
Does knowing you are a role model affect what parts you choose to play? -Nina Chung, Hermosa Beach, Calif.I don't consider myself a role model-I make mistakes all the time. It's more about how I want to portray women and myself. I played a stripper in Closer, and now it sickens me how many scripts I get where the woman is a stripper or a prostitute. I also have this sort of good-girl image-it's such a virgin-whore thing with female roles...
TIME: How did that experience affect your own beliefs about capital punishment?Picoult: Even as I was writing this book, I was flip-flopping all over the place. I'm still leery...
...feel the culture of vanity in rap and hip-hop has given young people a skewed reality of what is important in life? -Linsey Jones, Geneva, Ill.A lot of things affect people's views if they let their views be affected. A weak-minded person who was going to do something negative or be vain was going to do that whether it was the music or somebody else that affected...
...Overpopulation is the root cause of poverty, war and almost every other problem. In a few short years, 9 billion people will inhabit this shrinking earth. If leaders continue to bury their heads in the sand at the mere mention of the subject, the resulting problems and suffering will affect many generations to come...