Word: affects
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Recalling the Egyptian-Israeli peace talks, Gazit says he felt frustration when Egypt's President Anwar Sadat refused to let negotiations run over schedule into 1976 because he feared that the American presidential elections would adversely affect the Egyptian position...
...proposal would leave the ultimate choice of a dean with President Bok, and would not affect the present search for a dean...
...Esquivel emulated last year's Peace Prize winner, India's Mother Teresa, by declaring that he was accepting only on behalf of "the people of Latin America, particularly the most poor, the most humble, the Indians, peasants and workers." Asked whether his award would affect the way in which his country is ruled, he replied: "I don't know." Others were less pessimistic. "It will restrain those who brutalize, and end indifference," said José Westerkamp, a fellow Argentine civil rights activist. Added Robert Cox, the British-born former editor of the Buenos Aires Herald...
...that represent the variables in any economy. After these are fed into a computer, the model can provide a picture of how the economy might react to a change in one or more important factors. Economists can predict, for example, how a severe drought in the Middle West might affect not only food prices but also consumer purchases of everything else...
Even before a baby comes, start checking for bias. "Describe a day in the life of your child at age five, age twenty-five. Does gender affect your imaginings?" Later, beware of furniture that talks. Television's lesson that Mother is to blame for the ring around Father's collar may overwhelm the example of a real-life father's dutiful diaper changing. To find out how your children perceive you, ask them to role-play being you. Watching your children act out "the living room is a mess and company is coming-what happens?" can provide...