Word: effected
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...running for the race," Dement said, "but we can certainly have an effect on the league. We hurt Harvard by giving them their fifth loss...
...course, it remains to be seen whether the appointment will have any substantive effect on University policy. Hope, who said at the time of the announcement that she had not yet considered the issues facing the University, has not yet indicated that she will make many changes, though we hope that she will take opportunity of her appointment to listen to and represent student interests to the governing body. According to Heiskell, the biggest change may be that "one says `lady and gentlemen,' instead of `gentlemen...
Unless rejected by both houses of Congress, the raise, recommended by a salary-review commission composed of wealthy Washington insiders, will automatically go into effect this week. But last week Wright, who had steadfastly refused to schedule a vote on the pay increase for Congress, judges and other high-ranking Government officials, tried to turn the thermostat down a notch. He conducted his own confidential poll of House members -- with results startlingly different from those obtained by news organizations. Nearly 60% of the lawmakers told Wright they wanted the raise to go through without a vote. Polls in which members...
Just hours before the Senate righteously denounced and rejected the pay raise (knowing full well that the House would ride to the rescue), a wilted Wright reversed field, declaring that the House would vote after all -- to reduce the pay hike, once it goes into effect, to 30%. That would still leave the lawmakers with a hefty increase, from $89,500 to $116,350, rather than to $135,000. (Since Congress received its last raise, a 16% increase in 1987, inflation has remained at an annual rate of just 4.4%.) Or as Wright and members seeking re-election next year...
...doubt this resentment will have a harmful effect on the community: imagine someone participating in the big brother program not because he wants a little sibling, but because he needs the money. The Nunn plan will take the "volunteerness" out of community work, and the whole notion of "one thousand points of light" as the driving incentive becomes monetary. It would be a sad outcome if community work is associated only with those who have to work, those who are poor...