Word: concern
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...general situation, combined with the apprehension and concern voiced by our neighbors and a general network of pressure directed against us, probably would have led to the internationalization of our internal conflict. We were very close to a fraternal regional communist conflict and to the kind of situation that occurred in Hungary in 1956 ((when the Soviets intervened militarily to put down an uprising...
...trend is a natural, especially for the sons and daughters of thirty- and fortysomething parents raised during the activist 1960s. "Environmentalism is youthful now in the way that feminism was in the late '60s," writes Rosalind Coward in the British magazine New Statesman & Society. "It is the dominant political concern among the young, the main place where perceived discontents are articulated...
...global environmental awakening has been a true populist movement, a broad-based eruption of concern noteworthy for the absence of charismatic leaders. Ordinary citizens have begun to see the connection between environmental issues and their own welfare. Now it is time for political leaders to translate public concern into effective global action. Eventually deeds must catch up with environmental rhetoric, or humanity will learn the hard way that a healthy planet is not a luxury but a necessity...
...implications are unsettling, to say the least, since everyone comes into contact with such fields, which are generated by everything electrical, from power lines and antennas to personal computers and microwave ovens. Because evidence on the subject is inconclusive and often contradictory, it has been hard to decide whether concern about the health effects of electricity is legitimate -- or the worst kind of paranoia...
...having "biased the entire document" toward proving a link. "Our reviewers are convinced that there is no suggestion that ((electromagnetic fields)) present in the environment induce or promote cancer," the Air Force concludes. "It is astonishing that the EPA would lend its imprimatur on this report." The Pentagon's concern is understandable. There is hardly a unit of the modern military that does not depend on the heavy use of some kind of electronic ! equipment, from huge ground-based radar towers to the defense systems built into every warship and plane...