Word: affective
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...education funding, invest in job-creation programs in disadvantaged neighborhoods, and raise the minimum wage and the Earned Income Tax Credit. While these campaign pledges may be transformed or scaled back in the face of wider recession, they reflect Obama’s understanding of the problems that disproportionately affect minorities, and his desire to solve them...
...According to Nissen, the results indicate that treatment with statins will only affect a small percentage of the population. He said that he has seen figures suggesting that only a few million individuals would be prescribed statins if the effects of Ridker’s study become widely accepted...
...just because of its length. It serves as a grim reminder that sometimes a soldier's greatest enemy is the government he or she is fighting for. As the panel notes, it took nearly 20 years before the U.S. admitted that its use of Agent Orange had adversely affected soldiers during Vietnam, and it's taken just as long for Gulf War veterans to get GWI recognized as an actual medical condition. As the report's authors state, "addressing the serious and persistent health problems that affect Gulf War veterans as a result of their military service remains the obligation...
...outcome of this year’s matchup between Harvard and Yale will affect who wins the Ivy title...
...free, HoCos will be allowed to serve beer and wine to students who are over 21 years old, a change from the last Game at Harvard, when alcohol could only be purchased in designated spaces. Even this allowance of legal alcohol consumption, some HoCo chairs said, may not substantially affect students’ drinking habits. “It’s kind of silly, I think a lot of beer balls instead of beer kegs doesn’t make a lot of sense since they’re basically the same thing,” Murrell said. Some...