Yet Merkel's austerity policies have helped make Europe weaker, and Europe's weakness has begun affecting Germany, whose export-driven economy depends on its neighbors for markets.
PAGE A8 Ruling in Egypt on Ferry Sinking A7 Elections in Cambodia as Expected A8 Severe Flooding in Ukraine A9 National FOR MCCAIN AND OBAMA, Not to Early to Count Chickens Both John McCain and Barack Obama have begun affecting some of the public imagery and routines reserved for the president.
But the progressive decline in his mental abilities had begun to affect him profoundly, his widow said.
On Monday, the New York Times's longtime medical correspondent, Dr. Lawrence Altman, dealt with the question of whether Ronald Reagan's dementia had begun to affect his mind during his Presidency.
Gathered at another accommodation center, an hour outside Dublin in Mosney, many parents said their fears of deportation had begun to affect their children.
"I began to feel a certain pull from the landscape, and I realized that this trip had begun to affect me some place deep in my body," Mr. Feiler writes.
The thought of failing to clear any height in today's qualifying round at the Olympic trials had left her so nervous and irritated in recent weeks that it had begun to affect her jumping.
The lawsuit formed part of a broader campaign by the Wildensteins to improve their image after a wave of bad publicity had begun to affect their business, one of the wealthiest and most powerful in the art world.
When the Duke of Edinburgh, chancellor of Cambridge University, presented Derrida with his degree in the year in which Charles and Diana separated, he murmured to him that deconstruction had begun to affect his own family too.
