Word: effected
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Public support for proposed health care legislation hinges more on how it promises to impact individuals, rather than on its potential effect on the nation as a whole, according to a study earlier this week from Harvard School of Public Health researchers...
...study, researchers analyzed public opinion regarding former president Bill Clinton’s proposed 1994 health care reform—suggesting that the legislation’s failure was due to peoples’ doubts that it would have an overall positive effect on them individually, despite their recognition of the national need for health care reform...
...campus opera veteran who plays Lady Sangazure, is very confident about the show. “The whole crew has been absolutely fantastic and very efficient and organized. I’m hoping people will find it funny and we’re working with some special effects this year, which will be cool,” she says. These effect-laden sequences, which include a scene where one character is swallowed into the fires of hell, help add action to the quaint humor on display throughout the opera...
...minimalist approach to the music creates a bare, autumnal album that’s at once soothing, depressing and—unfortunately—less than gripping. Johnson’s husky growl reverberates around Molina’s baleful, tremulous cry and the two voices combine to nice effect, presenting two different sides to the classic American man: bruised and tough, soulful and exposed. The duo exhibits an effortless mastery of many classic tropes, employed without pretense to keep the album engaging and honest. Unfortunately the album’s traditional song structures and generally unremarkable music cause...
While “Almost Let You In” shows Molina & Johnson pushing their genre to pleasant effect, the tracks that stay comfortably within the genre and play it with an authentic familiarity have just as much merit. Songs like “Twenty Cycles to the Ground” and “Each Star Marks a Day,” while doing nothing to transcend or reinvigorate the genre, are a testament to the preeminent mastery of alt-country exhibited by Molina & Johnson...