Word: affects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...insurance industry also does more medical research on a wider variety of diseases than any other business, with the possible exception of the drug industry. The Prudential itself carries on dozens of different studies on everything from arthritis to high blood pressure, calculates how they affect the odds. For heart research alone, the Pru has a file of 25,000 electrocardiograms, one of the biggest in the world, which it uses to study the effects of the various heartbeat patterns (P, Q, R, S and T-Waves). Years ago the Pru refused to accept applicants whose cardiograms showed deep...
...income tax revision could never produce enough revenue, despite his earlier assertion that "of all the taxes there are, I think the sales tax is the last that should be enacted." His Democratic opponents, on the other hand, claim that the sales tax, in any form, would unjustly affect the lower income classes and inaugurate "the greatest orgy of spending in Massachusetts history," according to Professor Soloway...
While crying for Government economy, businessmen are generally careful not to single out federal programs that might affect themselves. When the Chamber of Commerce met in Dallas, for example, the assembled businessmen went on record against high federal spending on the same day the newspapers carried a statement by the president of the Dallas chamber criticizing the General Services Administration for canceling its lease-purchase program to build a $24 million federal office building in Dallas...
...department heads. He asked first that they recommend career officials, whose policy-making function should exempt them from civil service protection, for appointment to a special Administrative category--Schedule C. Secondly, he inquired whether any department needed additional non-career officials. The second point, since it will not affect present civil service posts, seems worthwhile. The first part, although it may put a number of positions up for grabs, is unsound for strictly non-political reasons...
...findings on how two chemicals, serotinin and LSD, affect the beating of the clam heart, appear to have a direct relationship to psychosis in humans...