Word: affectation
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...lingering uncertainty caused by President Kennedy's treatment of the steel industry, coupled with apprehension that his views of business and businessmen are not of the highest. This has caused businesses to consider whether the Administration would take further steps to interfere with wage-price negotiations and thereby affect corporate profits-which have declined from 9.2% of the national income in 1947 to 5.4% last year...
...Certain inimical family influences during the first few years of life can affect development of delinquency in three ways: (a) by contributing to the formation of traits shown to be significantly associated with antisocial tendencies in children; (b) by rendering criminogenic some traits which, in the absence of such malign family influences, are usually neutral; (c) by influencing delinquent trends quite apart from the influence of the delinquency-linked physiologic, neurologic or paychologic factors...
...manager, Bradlee T. Howe '63, declared yesterday that the new schedule "really doesn't affect that many people." He claimed that many people get done with their exams and leave before the end of the terms...
...great independent schools, McCord believes, have never been able to affect any single church the way Princeton...
Proposal to turn the area around the Cambridge Common into a historic "is not likely to affect the new buildings of the Graduate School of Education to any great extent," the chairman of the Historic Districts Committee yesterday afternoon...