Word: affective
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...time ahead of the September progress report due in Washington. And yesterday Maj. Gen. Rick Lynch, the commander of U.S. forces in southern Iraq, echoed the fear when talking to reporters in the Green Zone. "We're concerned about some kind of Tet offensive that's going to affect the debate in Washington," Lynch said, harking back to the pivotal 1968 push by communist forces in Vietnam...
...Nevertheless, six pounds of choice Maine lobster and two weekends later, Putin delivered on a long-promised threat. Early Saturday morning, the Kremlin abruptly announced Putin's decree to halt Russia's participation in the CFE treaty due to "extraordinary circumstances ... which affect the security of the Russian Federation and require immediate measures...
...meeting held Monday evening, the task force also cited troubling trends in the way the construction might affect the community and questioned the tangibility of the project’s benefits to the neighborhood...
...does that mean tomatoes aren't worth eating? Not at all, say researchers. When it comes to prostate cancer in particular, tomatoes may yet offer some health benefits. Many doctors believe that tomato products, and lycopene, don't affect all prostate cancers equally, but may instead help slow the growth only of aggressive and late-stage prostate tumors. "There is some evidence that it's at the later stages of prostate cancer where lycopene might be most relevant," says Dr. Edward Giovannucci, professor of epidemiology and nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health and principal author...
...lunch in Washington, Bush, himself, made the point Tuesday that the surge hasn't been given enough time to work. "We just started. We got all the troops there a couple of weeks ago," Bush told a business group, adding that he would essentially veto anything that could affect the surge. "American people expect... for military people to come back and tell us how the military operations are going, and that's the way I'm going to play it as commander-in-chief...