Word: affects
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bush's selection of Sen. Dan Quayle (R-Ind.) asa running mate seems to have played itself out,with 57 percent of the students indicating thecontroversial selection of the young conservativedid not affect their choice. Four percent saidQuayle's place on the Republican ticket made themmore likely to vote for Bush, while 39 percentsaid the vice president's choice tipped themtoward Dukakis...
Among women, Quayle's significance to thecampaign declined. Two-thirds of the women polledsaid the selection of the handsome senator rumoredto have been chosen for his appeal to the oppositesex did not affect their choice. Among men, 51percent said Quayle did not matter. Women who wereinfluenced by Bush's choice swung almost entirelyto the Democrats, with only 2 percent sayingQuayle increased their support of the Republicanticket. Five percent of the men said Quayleboosted their support of Bush and 44 percent saidthe Indiana senator pushed them towards Dukakis...
That meeting, similar to a shareholders' vote, allows about 360 HSA members who meet wage-earning minimums to elect board representatives and vote on changes in the bylaws, managers said. Students said the general meeting offered them their only chance this year to affect the governing body's membership...
THEIR constituency doesn't worry about the disease-they figure it can't affect them. As an AIDS patient said in a recent speech, "If I am dying from anything, it's the fact that not enough rich, white, heterosexual men have gotten AIDS for anyone to give a shit...
When Marcos failed to respond by a 5 p.m. deadline, prosecutors decided to proceed with the case. Reagan then met with senior White House advisers and was informed that an indictment would not affect U.S. foreign policy interests. Though Reagan was reportedly worried that Marcos might have to go to jail, the President said the case "may not come to my desk at all." The remark was telling: to the Administration, the once powerful Marcos had become a pesky legal problem, and no more...