Word: affective
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...time, I was told it wouldn't affect my health or fertility," says Drake, 32, of Lebanon, Ore., referring to her egg donation...
...remains to be seen how the case of Varun Gandhi will affect the BJP's chances. In any case, his supporters have not been quiet. On Saturday, after he turned himself in, they fought a pitched battle with the police and laid siege to the jail. Police responded by firing tear gas shells and charging the demonstrators with canes, injuring 25 people. His mother Maneka further stoked the anger when she claimed a Muslim officer had led the charge. In India's often overheated politics, the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty knows about playing with fire...
...pushing out profitable business. Lawmakers, however, must adopt a longer-term view. In 2000, the cost of treating diseases resulting from obesity—measured in insurance costs, Medicare, and Medicaid—came to the grand sum of $117 billion. These are costs that come back to affect all Americans in the form of rising insurance premiums and a struggling health-care system and are enough to outweigh short-term business profit...
...representatives to promote our events, hoping to make our advertisement the most iconic image on campus for the week. However, it seems that, despite all the energy spent in event publicity, we put too little thought into the kinds of images and words that we use and how they affect the entire Harvard culture...
...activist, told radio station Ekho Moskva that young Russians who can afford to should be allowed to pay their way out of service - provided that the money goes towards improving army conditions in Russia, which are notoriously low. Others, however, point out that may only exacerbate class divisions and affect the quality of the country's soldiery. "The army is already made up of Russia's poor," says Kuznetsova. "With this kind of system, it will be full of alcoholics and invalids...