Word: affectivity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...exhausted them. Relative to France's GNP or her international trade, they were still adequate in comparison with those of other nations, even the U.S. and other western European nations. True, the wage increases conceded last spring had triggered an eleven per cent increase in prices that would certainly affect France's balance of payments. But it was far from obvious that it would plunge France, consistently a surplus-runner, into a balance of payments deficit...
Mahoney's chief objection to the ordinance centered around the tax--currently $82 per $1000 of property--which could rise as much as $20 next year. Mahoney said that the pay raises would affect rent payers as well as property owners and cited the increased school construction problem, the MBTA deficit, and the MDC charges as problems which the City must still face in its budget considerations...
Having ruled out both environmental and genetic influences, Williams can only suggest that there are "unknown factors" that affect heredity. Although the gene-bearing chromosomes duplicate themselves precisely in each new cell nucleus after the division of a fertilized egg cell, the little-understood structures and particles in the cytoplasm of the egg cell are not symmetrically arranged. During division, Williams suggests, one new cell may not receive the same quantity of the unknown factors as another, and the result is marked differences between the four armadillos-or between identical human twins-that eventually form from the same...
...Finally, they turned it over to Dean Ford and asked him to make a decision. This shows the structural limitation inherent in the COH. The Masters feel fierce competition among thesemlves as representatives of the different Houses. They evaluate each proposed social reform in terms of how it will affect their own House's "prestige" or "position" vis-a-vis the other Houses. Since each proposal which comes before the Committee is bound to "lower" some Houses and "elevate" others, no issue stands a chance of generating the kind of unity necessary for passage...
...wife? How many students feel natural and enjoy themselves when the Master sits at their dining table? A growing number of students do not enjoy such activities and, thus, a growing number of students are completely out of touch with the persons who make the decisions which affect their social lives...