Word: affective
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...ability to attract private-sector funding could affect Harvard-based research on AIDS, tuberculosis, and other devastating diseases...
...Knowles informed colleagues of his condition in a letter sent on April 17. “A few years ago,” Knowles wrote, “I was diagnosed with prostate cancer, but—with superb medical care—this didn’t really affect my decanal routine. The past several weeks have become a bit more complicated, however, and today I’ve begun a rather more aggressive treatment.” At the time, Knowles said he would work from home, and Interim University President Derek C. Bok told his colleagues...
...neighbors complained that the facility would affect property values and attract coyotes and vultures. TSU had to abandon the site, over concerns that gathering vultures would threaten aircraft, and university officials say the body farm will be built elsewhere in the area...
...conventional wisdom. Critics claim such "stubbornness" is the tragic flaw of a popular leader, but in fact, such fortitude is the welcome sign of a true leader. Public opinion may change on a whim—it faces no consequences—but a leader’s decisions affect an entire country. That leader is stubborn when he refuses to change a failed policy, but he is spineless when he changes his personal beliefs to curry favor with the public...
While I partly agree with the conclusion of Mr. Wafsy’s editorial that the medical school must do more to educate its students on issues that affect patient care, I take strong opposition the implication his article makes against non-religious (and religious) physicians who choose not to engage their patients on issues of faith by essentially calling them “[less] effective...