Word: affectation
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...nation where politicians affect superior airs, Shastri is modest and retiring. Among a people given to rhetoric and ritual, he is concrete and practical. In a land reverencing charismatic leadership and far-reaching intellect, he looks like a messenger boy and disparages his own brain. Above all, he is reassuringly rational. Though he fights corruption, he does so with intelligence and compassion, well aware that badly paid public servants will invariably be tempted by bribes...
...admissions and financial aids, explained the admissions process. David E. Owen, Gurney Professor of History and Political Science, who retires this summer as Master of Winthrop House, outlined the changes which have occurred in the House system since 1939. Dean Ford discussed the pressures for specialization which today affect liberal arts colleges, and the General Education Program, which he said, is Harvard's attempt to deal with these pressures...
Last year the service was moved from Sunday to Monday. Dean Watson said the change did not affect the general level of attendance, which has been falling for several years...
...laws ban such discrimination, the Attorney General would have to give state or local officials "reasonable time" to act before filing suit. The Attorney General could, if he wished, use the services of local agencies to seek a voluntary solution. But if he decided that any delay would "adversely affect the interests of the U.S." or that referral to state officials would "prove ineffective," he could so notify the court and proceed with the suit...
...General De Gaulle may scuttle those negotiations, but the chief U.S. tariff negotiator, Christian Herter, was uncharacteristically pessimistic. It became clear at Vienna that unless the U.S. and Europe can resolve their immediate conflicts, the march toward Western economic unity may be set back in a way that would affect the pocketbooks of everyone who buys anything from Japanese cameras to German Volkswagens...