Word: affective
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...Dubai Ports World's acquisition of P&O is unlikely to affect the security situation at the six U.S. ports in question. As Flynn points out, the relevant question is not who owns the port, but what security arrangements are in place to prevent it being used as a point of entry for hostile elements. And right now on that front, U.S. ports across the board could use some work...
Still, it is unclear whether ethical consumerism is an effective means of reform. For it to be successful, it must take the form of collective action—while individual protest may do little to affect a corporation’s practices, an organized, widespread boycott can have a major impact, as shown by the public campaign that triggered Starbucks’ shift to “fair trade” coffee...
...tempts the gods, and the gods are always armed. For Cheney, that's the painful, humbling part. For the public, it's the engrossing, mythic part. The press may be mauling the story and prolonging it, but the accident's strange allegorical allure is beyond its power to affect...
...study suggested that college weight-gain does not affect all students equally. And a Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS) spokeswoman, Jami Snyder, agreed with the Rutgers researchers’ finding...
...January, Lees postponed the bill to give himself more time to study how the bill would affect private colleges in his First Hampden and Hampshire district, Connelly said, but he added that he did not believe that Lees opposes the bill...