Word: affective
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...does your heritage affect your music? -Rudy Rodriguez, Corpus Christi, TexasIt influences everything that I do-being Puerto Rican and from New York. I think you can hear it in my music and in the choices that I make...
...about its diagnosis, treatment and funding. Advancements in diagnosis and the array of treatments that are available to women with certain characteristics of the disease are heartening. However, there is a paucity of funding. Members of Congress can work to better 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...
...Honestly, who really believes we shouldn’t have input in College legislative decisions that affect us? Do administrators really know us better than we know ourselves? We’re selected because Harvard believes we are the best and the brightest. In fact, we’re trusted, and almost expected, by this College to become leaders in the future. Preventing us from attending “closed door” sessions only stifles learning and breeds discontent, hurting both the students and the administration in the process...
...yuan is indeed undervalued, and this does negatively affect the U.S. economy: The current exchange rate results in low production costs in China, allowing Chinese businesses to produce products (which they then import to the U.S.) whose prices are lower than the prices of their American-made counterparts. The U.S.-China trade deficit is, in part, a result of this phenomenon...
...this process of decisions made behind closed doors, this disempowerment of students, this denial of citizenship—must end now.” Petersen’s point was a valid and important one. The lack of student input in major university decisions continues to affect the community. For example, as Petersen pointed out the Administrative Board, an assembly of more than 30 faculty and administrators that adjudicates “academic regulations” and “standards of social conduct,” does not have any student members. Mature and responsible students on the board...