Word: affects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that lost in five out of six states last fall and carried many a Republican down with them.† If Goldwater, who won easily in Arizona, right-to-work and all, takes an uncompromising stand during the labor bill debates, liberal Republicans may desert him not so much to affect Senate voting as to remind labor before 1960 that the G.O.P. has a friendly profile...
...Vivian Bose, "is to see whether we as lawyers, judges and jurists cannot stir the conscience of the world into insisting that there shall be certain common decencies for all men in all lands." To some it might seem improbable that the conscience of the world would ever greatly affect the actions of totalitarian rulers. But the men who met in New Delhi last week had behind them the experience of one of history's most successful propagandists. Wrote Tom Paine 175 years ago: "An army of principles will penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot...
...housing, agricultural, and unemployment compensation cuts affect substantial segments of the low and middle income brackets, the restless majority recovering slowly in the wake of the recession. But the President is optimistic about business recovery; in fact, he is counting on it desperately to raise needed government revenue. In spite of this emerging bull market, however, he is strangely reluctant to take such measures as restoring the cut in the capital gains tax (which cost the government $4 billion in annual revenue) the Administration made four years...
...propagandists, covering the boss's anxious retreat, put out the naive-sounding line that Arabs must distinguish sharply between bad local Communists and good Russians. Nothing in the Syrian unpleasantness, wrote Nasser's trained seal. Editor Mohammed Heikal of Al Ahram, must be allowed to affect "in any way the great victory we achieved in earning the friendship of the Soviet Union...
Mass production unions have been deeply affected by the fact that the unskilled worker, once the core of their power, has become the vanishing American. Highly mechanized plants have forced workers to develop new skills; the new class of skilled labor has fractured the monolithic front that the mass-production unions once presented to management. To hold the allegiance of skilled workers, unions are revising their organization. The U.A.W. recently amended its constitution to allow skilled workers to veto contract clauses that affect them, took great pains in last summer's contract negotiations to win an extra...