Word: affectations
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Billy Carter himself last week, explaining his agency and his actions, insisted that the continuing investigations and the disclosures already made would not affect the President's campaign for reelection. "I'm his brother," he said, "but I'm still a private citizen. You know what they say, 'You can choose your friends, but you can't choose your kinfolk...
...most valued words at NBC are "Heeere's Johnny!" No wonder, since Johnny Carson's Tonight show brings the network $90 million a year in advertising revenues. It does come as some surprise, however, that the mere mention of Host Carson's name can also affect the stock market. Last week a few of Carson's friends and relatives were caught in an embarrassing, illegal stock ploy to capitalize on inside information about the entertainer's participation in a Las Vegas casino deal...
Harvard spokesmen said yesterday the bill will not affect University operations, adding that Harvard has always abided city zoning codes...
...government, either from outside or inside, is going to be of very great importance. But it would obviously be unwise and foolish of South Africa to sponsor a subversive action against Mugabe. This [type of suggestion] is merely the sort of militant noise that Mugabe apparently believes would favorably affect his image...
...critical area of strategic weaponry, the Soviets now enjoy, overall, what some experts call "essential equivalence" with the U.S. SALT II will not affect Moscow's numerical lead in several categories. The U.S.S.R. is ahead 1,398 vs. 1,054 in intercontinental ballistic missile launchers, 950 vs. 656 in submarine-launched ballistic missiles and an estimated 7,836 vs. 3,253 in megatonnage, an important measure of a nuclear arsenal's sheer destructive force...