Word: affectation
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Carrying his analysis further, McCord discovered that the forces that acted on Triton to make it sink to its present orbit will continue to affect the larger moon at an accelerating rate. Tides raised on Neptune's surface by the pull of Triton's gravity exert a drag on the satellite that causes its orbit to decay. The tidal action on Neptune also creates friction that dissipates energy from the rotating Neptune-Triton system, further depressing Triton's orbit...
...said last night that he expects the committee to have approved a proposal for changes in parietal hours within a few days. He explained that informal discussion has been going on for a while, but no proposal has been outlined. The revisions, he said, would probably affect the whole week, not just weekends...
...violated the rules would be subject to contempt proceedings before whatever court was handling the case. While a jury trial is in progress, urged the committee, the court should also hold in contempt any person who makes an out-of-court public statement that is "reasonably calculated to affect the outcome of the trial and seriously threatens to have such an effect...
...police. Yet it is essential that we know the actual volume of crime in order to make rational decisions about how to allocate our resources in response. For example, if we should find that there are many times more larcenies and housebreakings than are reported, that fact might affect judgments about the number and deployment of policemen, laws relating to locks and alarms, or the deductible clauses in theft insurance policies. It might also encourage us to try to strike harder at the elaborate system by which stolen goods are marketed. Of course, we might decide...
...known how this move will affect student employment in the porter service. Last week's decision to cut general undergraduate service in half was based on the decreasing number of students seeking employment as porters. Jewett said that he imagined the increase in freshmen bathroom cleaning would take up any employment slack the end of vacuuming might cause...