Word: affectation
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...Constantine Generales, coordinator of space medicine research at New York Medical College, suggested that it might be well to replace Glenn with another astronaut. Referring to the tension of the long wait. Dr. Generales said: "Like any good soldier, Glenn would never admit that it affected him. But on the psychological, subconscious level, these things could affect in-flight performance." Dr. Generales' view was quickly challenged by Dr. Robert Voas, a psychologist who works with the astronauts. Said he: "There's no evidence that he's building up any frustrations or annoyances. If you really wanted...
...could prove they represented an overwhelming majority," one legislative aide commented, "then we might be swayed." A check of offices on the Hill revealed that mail is generally running heavily in favor of resumed testing. Several aides pointed out that the Project would gain in influence if it could affect the mail ratio...
...century has been Europe's easy tolerance of cartels. Last week in Brussels, the Ministerial Council of the six-nation Common Market approved the toughest antitrust regulation Europe has ever seen. Binding on all Common Market members under the 1957 Treaty of Rome, the new regulation will also affect U.S. businessmen who sell their products in the Common Market, manufacture within it, or have patent or license deals with firms that...
Barred under the new Common Market regulation will be any agreements "which are likely to affect trade between member states and which have as their object or result the prevention, restriction or distortion of competition within the Common Market." Companies are required to declare by Aug. 1 the details of existing agreements that come within this sweeping language-or suffer penalties if they are discovered later. Any company that fails to scrap or revise an offending agreement can be fined...
Nobody knows if Harvard, or any other college, has any lasting and individual effects on its students' values, personality, or goals. Philip Jacob, in Changing Values in College, concluded that ten colleges, including Harvard, did affect students appreciably, but the book, which infuriated partisans of many institutions, raised a very serious question whether the differences between the select ten were of any basic educational significance...