Word: affectation
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Paving the park will not affect the trees there, Goyette said. Steel gratings will be placed around the trees to allow water to get to their roots...
...action will probably undercut liberal opposition to suppression of the radical movement. The further notion of the demonstration's leaders, that massing people in the streets will spring Bobby Scale from jail is hardly realistic. It is doubtful that even the widespread streetfighting predicted for coming weeks can affect his fate...
Most Americans still think of urban blight in terms of immediate effects: filth, smoke and noise that all can see, smell and hear. But dirty cities affect far more than the people in them; they also poison the distant countryside-as Los Angeles is now doing to the San Bernardino National Forest, which is fully 80 miles away...
...Procedures to review, assess and make accountable" have become "orderly procedures consistent with imperatives of academic freedom to assess the policies and assure the responsibility of those whose decisions affect the life of the University...
Such battle-tested national organizations as the N.A.A.C.P., the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and the National Urban League have long selected specific communities to score victories that could become pacesetting precedents or affect the national mood. As localism becomes more the core of the struggle, they continue to perform the vital role of keeping local communities from backsliding on integration of schools and public facilities, expanding voter registration, breaking white barriers against blacks in industry, training blacks for better jobs. Such leaders as the N.A.A.C.P.'s Wilkins, the Urban League's Whitney Young and S.C.L.C.'s Rev. Ralph Abernathy...