Word: concern
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...Twice Born: Beauty does carry a larger message, an interest in the quality of beauty and its identification. The aesthetic concern, however, hardly seems of a piece with other theoretical frameworks. Twice Born: Beauty tries for a ground-zero approach to art appreciation, asking for intuitive criteria available to the sensitive viewer. The project supports no suggestion of direct artistic inheritance. The normative criteria of Western, Eastern and other traditions are collapsed into formal abstract principles: "unity, variation in unity, complexity, intensity, brightness or clarity, harmony or coherence, and resolution." There is a pressure to seek universals...
...said the work of helping people get skills and jobs is of immediate concern for the Urban League...
...most urgent concern, Price said, is to attain a minimum standard of academic achievement...
...fodder for the attacks of Vice President Al Gore '69. Gore's charges have merit: as a whole, the Bush tax reforms would represent a step backward in the search for a fair and progressive tax policy. Unfortunately, given the current political climate, both candidates' tax plans have focused concern on middle-class and wealthy Americans rather than the poor, and neither man has presented an adequate proposal for general reform...
...sheer scale of the Bush cut is also reason for concern. The plan includes $1.3 trillion in direct cuts, but because this money could otherwise have been used for debt reduction, it would impose an additional $300 billion interest cost. Given a tax cut of this magnitude, Americans should remember that while the surpluses are temporary (and probably much smaller than the candidates would like), the tax cuts will live on, forcing the country during the next recession to decide between grueling tax hikes and deficit spending...