Since the 1930s the quality and weight of American children's literature were sharply affected by the business of publishing, as well as by the social pressures to which children, like adults, were subjected.
"Although commercial ties were sharply affected by the global economic crisis in 2009, China remained the second-largest U.S. trading partner, its third-largest export market, and its biggest source of imports" says the report.
Livestock raising was sharply affected by the drought of the 1970s and '80s.
By contrast, some of the cooler countries of the region, like Nepal, will not be sharply affected by rising temperatures.
Soil structure was similar to savannah soil in the older pasture, but was sharply affected in annual crops.
We are taking the piss, quite literally – and it is proving to be a highly effective way to study how climate changes have affected local environments". Chase's project, based in South Africa, has already shown that the region's climate has been sharply affected by events that have occurred in distant regions, including the Arctic and Antarctic.
State and local governments, too, would be sharply affected, since a large share of federal domestic programs operate as grants to states and localities, which deliver basic services such as education, highways and mass transit, child nutrition, rental subsidies, clean water, and health care through Medicaid.
But homeowners in the greater New York City region, at least, will be less sharply affected by these foreclosures.
Tenneco's chairman and chief executive, James L. Ketelsen, said the company's exploration and production would be most sharply affected.
But the Soviet bloc, which had expected to reap extra American business from the terrorism scare, was itself sharply affected by the nuclear accident at the Chernobyl reactor.
When brain processes are so sharply affected as to reduce perceptual or attitudinal awareness, impairment may produce marked behavioral consequences without associated feelings of fatigue.
