Word: affective
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...between John Humphrys and reporter Andrew Gilligan, that a dossier making the case for the Iraq war had been "sexed up." This led to a judicial inquiry after the source for Gilligan's story, government scientist David Kelly, committed suicide. Strained relations with the government probably did not directly affect license-fee negotiations, but add to the sense that the once-beloved Auntie Beeb has become the relative nobody wants to sit next to at family events. She's unlikely to find a warmer reception from a Conservative government: Tories and Euro-skeptics regularly accuse...
...available to women with certain characteristics of the disease are heartening. However, there is a paucity of funding. We need to better understand priorities and must demand that our representatives do too. Members of Congress can work to more effectively define funding priorities while realizing that their efforts affect more than just government agencies, corporations and re-election opportunities. We are not dealing with numbers here; we are dealing with people's lives. Stefan N. Miller, Baltimore...
...court still matters -- it continues to decide cases that ultimately affect every American 43% The court no longer matters -- its deadlocked Justices have made it irrelevant
...expense for BMW, which has annual sales of $65 billion. BMW won't say how much it's invested in the company since 1998, though Rhys conservatively estimates it could be around $1.2 billion. BMW will certainly be happy to see Rolls generating profits, but they won't much affect the bottom line. But owning Rolls-Royce gives BMW some intangible benefits: prestige and bragging rights. It proves it can sell cars that sweep the breadth of the market, from budget to budget-busting. To be sure, if the world's economy sputters and all car sales...
...immigration in straightforward terms, without feeling terribly dumbed-down. I don’t feel very well-rounded in different disciplines, but these classes raised questions and proposed solutions that spoke directly to my life: What impact does government policy have on students? How will changing demographic trends affect my own children? Really, my uterus does that...