Word: affectation
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...Soviet Union cannot abrogate that right by any unilateral action. Such privileges as the West claims in Berlin "derive absolutely from the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany, and were not granted by, nor negotiated with, the Soviet Union." Nor can the Soviet Union or its East German allies affect the allied rights of access to Berlin, which are "inherent in the rights of the Western powers to be in Berlin." If those rights of access are interfered with, warned the U.S. note, then the Western Big Three have "the responsibility to make such dispositions with respect to the exercise...
...planetary wind that circulates around the temperate zone at high altitude. Its general motion is west to east, but it often veers to the north or south in great horizontal waves. In the bends of the waves are "ridges" of high pressure and "troughs" of low pressure, which affect the movement of the winds on the earth's surface...
Such a plan might affect the character of our teaching, and our thinking about curriculum. But it seems unlikely that what is valuable would be lost; what is less valuable might slowly change...
...evidence of a V-shaped recovery increases, it will inevitably affect the decisions of U.S. businessmen in two areas that could give the economy another boost: hiring and stockpiling...
...Reporting to the stockholders of the great diamond cartel, De Beers Consolidated Mines Ltd., Chairman Harry Oppenheimer, 52, professed unshaken confidence in South Africa's future, at least economically: "Political upheavals . . . will not affect the basic wealth of the country, which is underground." De Beers' 1960 sales, said Oppenheimer, were down $4.5 million, to $250 million, but its diamond sales in 1961's first quarter hit a new record. Another reason for Oppenheimer's optimism: De Beers is about to begin manufacture of a synthetic diamond that he hopes will cut deeply into...