Word: affectation
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Pakistan-seemed far less concerned with the fact that the Chinese invasion posed a real threat to its own frontiers than with how the crisis would affect its bitter and longstanding dispute with India over control of Kashmir. Bitterly. Pakistan pointed to the crack Indian divisions still positioned along the U.N. cease-fire line as proof that India was exaggerating the extent of the Chinese incursions. Echoing influential Pakistani officials who labeled India the "aggressor" in the border conflict. President Ayub Khan said that "international Communism" was far less of a danger to Pakistan than "Hindu imperialism," and that India...
...seminar on neo-colonialism for African and American students at Harvard is being organized by the National Student Association as part of its nation-wide effort to get American and foreign students seriously examining the political issues that will affect foreign students when they return to their homes...
...close analysis of voting patterns in the November 6 election by Hughes' campaign workers revealed that the independent candidate's vote probably hurt Republican George Cabot Lodge's total, but did not affect the Kennedy vote...
...nine-man panel of the Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals sat in on it. The question: If a passenger dies in an airplane crash, can his beneficiaries collect only the maximum damage claims allowed by the state in which the accident happened? In a decision that will profoundly affect insurance companies and airlines, the court said no by a six-to-three vote...
Analysts were forced to apply standard political maxims to a situation in which precedents may not apply. All that was certain was that a powerful new factor, unsettling and emotional, would affect the U.S. voter-in ways that even he may not comprehend until he enters the voting booth...