Word: affects
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WASHINGTON--Native Americans and their supporters, numbering from 750 to 1000 people, according to police estimates, converged on the Capitol yesterday afternoon, to protest 11 proposed legislative acts that they say would affect the rights and sovereignty of Indian nations...
...added that this change in name will not adversely affect the Taiwan economy because it would still have an autonomous government and trade...
...difficult not so sound like (God forbid) Eric Severeid. It is the general, but by no means pervasive, comfort of America today that makes the '70s so inert and dangerous. But every intelligent person clucks over the headlines each day and then forgets them, unless they directly affect him or her. And no one does anything. Despite the claims to the contrary, progress is not forthcoming...
...spent 42 months in solitary confinement, partly because his father, Admiral John McCain, happened to be Navy Commander in Chief for the Pacific. "Until the day I went down, I lived under my father's shadow," McCain explains. "Incarceration relieved me of that burden-he couldn't affect my future there...
...life. Wrote Chief Justice Warren Burger: "The plain intent of Congress was to halt and reverse the trend toward extinction." In dissent, Justice Lewis Powell noted dryly that this meant vital federal projects would have to be canceled if they "threaten some endangered cockroach." Indeed, the decision could affect at least eleven other projects, including the proposed $690 million Dickey-Lincoln Dam in Maine, which would endanger the Furbish lousewort, a rare plant that resembles the snapdragon...