Word: concern
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With nearly $4 billion in venture capital being invested in networking start-ups this quarter, the concern is that too many companies are being hurled too quickly into the same markets. For instance, at least a dozen optical-switch makers have been launched in the past six months. (Remember the dozen pet-supply e-commerce companies that were started last year?) That doesn't faze Josef Straus, CEO of JDS Uniphase: "Last Supercom [an industry trade show], there were 40 new start-ups in networking. Why did they get funded? Because they had a good business proposition in a great...
...Rice also emphasized the need to work with America's allies, reflecting a real concern that Clinton-era unilateralism has alienated Washington's European NATO partners and left the Gulf War alliance in tatters. Again, a solid diagnosis of the problem, although the party that put Jesse Helms in charge of foreign policy on Capitol Hill may be ill-placed to excoriate unilateralism...
...Rice's primary concern, expressed in a Foreign Affairs essay earlier this year, is that there's no overarching intellectual framework guiding today's U.S. foreign policy. Having taken the reins just as the collapse of the Soviet Union nullified the organizing principle of postwar U.S. foreign policy, the Clinton administration failed to define the U.S. national interest and formulate the resultant strategies and priorities. Instead, Republicans charge, it's been a mishmash of Band-Aid solutions and crisis management that has often simply deferred problems while fundamental concerns have been neglected...
Some educators have a more pressing concern--that extra days for everyone won't do much for the stragglers. "Some kids come to school with a 3,000-word vocabulary, and others come with 30,000 words, and when we place them in the same classroom from 8 to 2, the 3,000-word child can't begin to catch up," says Barbara Davis Brown, principal of the Village Academy, an extended-year school opening next month in Delray Beach, Fla., which will run 264 days a year. For those who need extra help, Brown will offer tutoring sessions afternoons...
Will the companies succumb to the pressure, as they have in Europe? As of last week, Campbell claimed to be unfazed, with few customers registering concern, despite the spotlight. Even at the San Francisco rally, there was some ambivalence. "I may not eat Campbell's soup as much," offered Shanae Walls, 19, a student at Contra Costa College who was there with her Environmental Science and Thought class. But as the protesters tossed products from Pepperidge Farm--a Campbell subsidiary--into the toxic-waste bin, she had second thoughts. "I love those cookies," she said wistfully. "That might take some...