Word: concern
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Karasiewiczes' overriding concern is food, which consumes 50% of their income and much of their time. The plant in Ursus helps out. It furnishes employees with a hearty breakfast each day (fruit juice, soup or goulash, sausage, bread, coffee, tea or milk), and gives them coupons redeemable at the factory for 3.2 lbs. of meat per worker each month for about two-thirds of what it costs, when available, at the butcher shops. But when Maria gets off work after an eight-hour day finishing steel tractor parts, she must stand in the interminable queues at the neighborhood supermarket...
Looming over every current discussion of the U.S. economy is deep concern about the nation's increasingly mercurial interest rates. The prime lending rate that big commercial banks charge their best corporate customers jumped last week to 21.5%, breaking the 20% peak of last April and heightening fears of a renewed economic downturn. The economists on TIME'S board predicted that the rate is likely to go as high as 23% early next year...
...week began, the Polish crisis was Washington's major foreign policy concern. Alarmed by fresh intelligence reports of Soviet military activity, President Carter summoned key advisers to the White House Sunday morning, and later in the day met with the National Security Council and congressional leaders. After these sessions, the White House said that "preparations for possible Soviet intervention in Poland appear to have been completed," and warned that such a step would have "very adverse consequences for U.S.-Soviet relations...
...During the Arab oil embargo in 1973, there was talk of U.S. military intervention in the Middle East. Does that possibility concern...
...Mile Island demonstrated that control-room personnel are not always prepared to handle an emergency. In the past year the nuclear industry and the Government spent millions of dollars to improve control-room warning systems and to upgrade training programs. Even among nuclear proponents, though, there is still some concern about the danger of human error...