affect
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If I wipe out all my students and credit-card debt, will that negatively affect my score?
From MarketWatch
Her stories explore the way mining affects industry, communities and the environment, and how investment decisions by mining executives can ripple through global markets.
In particular, earlier studies have largely overlooked how the overall structure of these connections, known as network topology, affects performance in IoT blockchain systems.
From Science Daily
Told largely through footage filmed by the hundreds of terrified villagers who gathered below, the film showcases how the ubiquity of the cellphone and connections to social media affect the way that events unfold.
From Barron's
“The president does not make decisions that affect our national security based on normal market fluctuations,” said White House spokesman Kush Desai.
From Barron's
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