Just to get the actors to relax, listen to each other, and actually affect each other, there are a number of techniques you have to learn, and they don't all work on every actor.

The suites are used to affect companies' bottom line. There has to be a return on their investment.

We firmly believe that with the deployment of the American National Missile Defense Program, it will certainly affect the security of China.

Will it affect financial support? Frankly, in my tenure here I have visited over 25 cities, ... alumni and donors in each and everyone of those cities, their anticipation of our excellence is profound. They want our national reputation to rise.

It would undermine the housing market, and could quickly result in credit problems that would affect the entire (American) financial system.

He said housing has turned increasingly speculative, and a correction in the market is coming, ... But he also said that the correction won't affect the great bulk of homeowners.

We came over right before they closed the pool, so I did some extra stretching. We had other things we could do, so I didn't let it affect me.

Facebook draws from the public and public-interest sphere, a simultaneously bold and modest step towards acknowledging that our new networked technologies deeply affect our lives in ways not always captured or best shaped by the typical template of consumer and seller.

The executives were asking me if this political movement will affect China's way of doing business. The Chinese immediately reassured us that it wouldn't.

They and others are frightened really of this experiment to succeed. This is the bottom line. They don't want these values, these ideas to take root in a country like Iraq. This may affect them.