Word: affectation
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...that every two weeks throughout the campaign the committees of all candidates for state-wide office file in the Secretary of State's office itemized reports of all expenditures and liabilities over $50 that were incurred during the two week inter-vale. Among the first candidates this law would affect were the Senatorial contenders Ted Kennedy and George Lodge. Presumably, the prospect of campaign finances being open for public inspection would inhibit the candidates and their committees from amassing distastefully large expenditures. The public would be likely to react against one canddate who was spending two or three times...
...first-hand facts, the Prime Minister flew to the front to consult his officers and console the wounded troops. In New Delhi the External Affairs Ministry announced the harshest action of the week against Red China: the shutdown of the Indian consulates in Shanghai and Lhasa. This did not affect India's Peking embassy, which, aggression or no aggression, was doing business as usual. At week's end. some of its business was revealed: under orders from Nehru, Indian diplomats in Peking were carrying on discreet preliminary peace talks with China...
...recent discovery that magnetic fields are common in space, perhaps even in the empty reaches between the galaxies. Radio waves reveal the fields and measure their strength, but no one knows the origin of this mysterious force. Apparently it is an important feature of the universe, and may affect its behavior in many different ways...
...circumstances under which these drugs as taken inevitably affect the subjective experience. Unfortunately the formal warning against "mind-distorting" drugs is now part of the situation at Cambridge. The echo of this official Sound will cause all sorts of nervous crises, not the drugs...
...seemed a step forward. But when Iran's tradition-bound Moslem mullahs got wind of the plan, they flatly rejected it as "not in keeping with Islamic law." Already under intense pressure from the mullahs, who fear the government's land-reform program will affect their vast lands, Premier Assadollah Alam finally yielded. Last week Alam suspended the decree, and Iran's unveiled women remained unfranchised as well...