Word: affectation
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...officials have been most helpful in promoting the welfare of the university. In providing moral as well as financial support, they consistently have made clear their desire to help improve the university and its service to the state in every possible way without in any sense attempting to affect policy or practice on or off the campus. J. F. Corette realizes, as much as any man in the state, the importance of higher education to our society, and this understanding is reflected in his private as well as his corporate activities...
...four conditions: 1) that the establishment's goods or services are available "to a substantial degree to interstate travelers" (just what was meant by "substantial" was not specified); 2) that a "substantial" portion of its goods move in interstate commerce; 3) that its activities or operations otherwise "substantially affect interstate travel or the interstate movement of goods in commerce"; 4) that it is an "integral part" of an establishment covered by the bill-as, for example, a local concession within a national chain store-meeting any of Conditions...
...oceanographers' instruments, the Navy has one more ace up its gold-braided sleeve. It has worked out a scheme for scuttling the decommissioned submarine Toro near the place where Thresher sank. As Toro settles through the water followed by sonar beams, she will tell how the currents affect a sinking submarine. Her crushed hulk lying on the bottom, its position pinpointed, will tell the dogged Navy, as it continues its search, what Thresher should look like to oceanographic instruments...
Unflappable Harold Macmillan, who did not allow last week's events to interrupt his golfing vacation, will be able to present the government's case when Parliament reconvenes next week. He may yet, as in the past, confound his critics in Commons. But the affair may seriously affect the Tories' already shaky chances at the next elections, which Macmillan will now probably try to delay. Said Tory Backbencher Lord Lambton: "The harm this will do to the Conservative Party will be enormous. There has been for some time a general feeling of unrest in this country...
...handful to a few score-and so far the cops have no idea who the leaders are. But neither Quebec's Premier Jean Lesage nor the federal government of Prime Minister Lester Pearson dismisses the FLQ lightly. For behind the bombs and bombast lie deep-rooted grievances that affect all of French Canada's 5,500,000 citizens. The vast majority of them do not want to be separate. But they do want to be equal...