Word: effected
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sputnik and its effect on public opinion have transformed the thinking of the Democrat Congressmen" who only last year voted to cut budget requests for national defense...
...Rivero's calming words were showing little effect; in the long run they might prove to be potent arguments. While most Cubans opposed Batista, many of them were also tiring of Castro's bootless, unremitting violence...
...most feared of all the fallout isotopes. It has a long half-life (28 years), and the human body tends to mistake it for calcium, which it resembles chemically, and to build it into bone. As it disintegrates over the years, it may cause cancer by the effect of its radiation on tender living cells...
...desperately short of means to keep rein on delinquents awaiting trial, some officials joined the critics in wondering whether the board was not merely turning them "right out into the streets" to do even more damage. But the board had laid down a dramatic challenge. Somehow, it said in effect, the city and state must provide what is needed to cope with New York's shocking delinquency scandal-and let the schools get back to the job of education...
...private oil companies that Gulf, the last U.S. firm wildcatting on the peninsula, got out (TIME, Feb. 4, 1957). Five months ago he got a concession in Iran in return for a promise to turn over 75% of oil profits, thus overturning the fifty-fifty pattern now in effect in the Middle East...