Word: affects
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...total disarmament'-unsupported by specifics and safeguards-speed and coordinate all efforts to improve [nuclear] detection devices, steadfastly adhere to the principle of the need for inspection." The U.S. should end all detectable (aboveground) nuclear tests, but "we should resume underground testing, for its results can vitally affect both offensive and defensive capabilities as well as the cleanliness of such weapons . . . Simple disarmament can invite aggression, as Nazi and Communist aggression have brutally taught Western democracies...
...footnoted opinion, Chief Justice Earl Warren wrote that Congress had explicitly authorized the rules of secrecy in the Civil Rights Act of 1957. Furthermore, the Civil Rights Commission had been given a fact-finding mandate-as opposed to a judicial function-and "cannot take any affirmative action which will affect an individual's legal rights." Due process, said Warren, "is an elusive concept. Its exact boundaries are undefinable . . . When a general fact-finding investigation is being conducted, it is not necessary that the full panoply of judicial procedures be used." Similar rules of procedure govern the Federal Trade Commission...
...provincial organization in Quebec is practically nonexistent, even though they captured 50 of 75 Quebec seats in the federal House of Commons in the 1958 election. Since their ties with the old Duplessis machine were informal at best, they insist that the Liberal upset in Quebec does not really affect the Diefenbaker government's national popularity. All this is true, but Quebec itself-that proud, peculiar and partisan province-was in for a change...
Only when a nation's differences with the U.S. are sustained over a long period do they seem to affect a customer's buying habits. Japanese goods since the war have gained wide U.S. acceptance for quality at a lower price. Guided by U.S. know-how, Japanese manufacturers have gone far to overcome the reputation for shoddiness formerly attached to the "Made in Japan" label. Says an official of Chadwick-Miller Importers Inc. of Boston: "Since the war, we find Japanese quality is excellent, considering price." Besides, points out Seiki Tozaki, president of C. Itoh & Co., a Japanese...
Though medical researchers are still not sure how fats in the diet affect artery disease and the risk of heart attacks, practicing physicians are not waiting for final answers. More and more doctors believe that it is wise anyway to reduce the amount of fats and related substances, notably cholesterol, in their patients' bloodstreams. Last week Cincinnati's. William S. Merrell Co. announced that it is start ing general distribution of a cholesterol-cutting chemical just approved (for prescription sale only) by the Food and Drug Administration. The chemical: triparanol, trade-named MER/2^. The makers claim that...