Word: affectation
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Many of the problems that are supposed to constitute "the urban crisis" could not lead to disaster. They have to do with comfort and convenience, but they do not affect the essential welfare of individuals nor the good health of the society. Most of these problems could be solved rather easily if only the taxpayers were willing to pay the price...
...sergeant of detectives in the New York City Police Department urged an audience of about 40 Harvard students last night to become policemen, saying that police work offered an opportunity to "affect radically the quality of life" in the cities...
...first official act of the new decade, President Nixon signed into law the Environmental Policy Act of 1969, which made protection of U.S. natural resources a matter of national policy. The bill also established a three-man Council on Environmental Quality empowered to review all federal activities that affect the quality of life and make reports directly to the President. Last week President Nixon named the first chairman of the new council: Russell E. Train, Under Secretary of the Interior, who firmly believes that "the people of this country want a cleaner environment, and they are ready...
...hard to listen to any of those phrases nowespecially "the University community" -without wearing a sour smirk. The changes that have come to the mythical University community since. 1966 are obvious; what may be less immediately apparent is the way those changes affect a newspaper...
...sports were incompatible. But it is not at all clear to me why using the Stadium on separate days would make the incompatibility relevent. Harvard middle guard Spencer Dreischarf, ??ough less than enthusiastic about sharing the Stadium, said "I don't see how paying in the same facility would affect our amateur thinking...