Word: affectations
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...ASKING Congress for a reintroduction of Selective Service registration--the first step towards a new military draft--President Carter has made a hasty and dangerous decision, one that will affect all Americans, not just those eligible to be drafted. Carter is placing a politically opportunistic "get tough with the Russians" attitude before sound statesmanship by raising the ante in his battle with the Soviet Union with the lives of the 33 million men and women in the 18 to 26-year-old age group...
...asking prospective jurors in his Tennessee drawl what cars they owned and whether they had heard of Consumer Advocate Ralph Nader. When Raymond Schramm responded that a member of his family had a 1976 Pinto, the attorney, now representing the Ford Motor Co., asked him if that might affect his judgment. "I don't think so," Schramm replied. "I used to drive a Corvair...
...case now being tried, Ford may be fined a maximum of only $30,000 if it is found guilty under the two-year-old Indiana law allowing corporations to be charged with reckless homicide. No jail sentences are threatened because no individual was accused. Yet a guilty verdict could affect the 23 pending civil suits. It could also trigger a rash of criminal charges against other companies involved in product-safety disputes...
...would consent to be interviewed only if she would move in with him while his wife was away for a few weeks. Brzezinski is generally regarded as a happily married square with an unfortunate taste for jocular banter of the kind that Henry Kissinger, the "secret swinger," used to affect, as if being considered sexy improved on the dour image of being brainy. But reporters always have the advantage: their account of any conversation is what gets printed. Quinn's friends probably put it down as jocular banter when she herself was quoted as having "had to promise...
Rarely has a new year begun with such a fast-developing and important story. Even before the holiday season ended last week, it was clear that the flow of Soviet troops into Afghanistan would deeply affect the course of Soviet-American relations, and thus call for TIME'S first breaking news cover...