Word: concern
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...that he wants to bring Russia's current order crashing down, it's more that he fears that Putin has chosen a self-destructive path that will bury all of Russia - and therefore the interests of the oligarchs, too - in the debris. Three aspects of Putin's policies concern Berezovsky...
Small-business owners aren't happy about this. They lose good workers every year to larger firms with better health plans, and this predicament has been their No. 1 concern in polls every year since 1986, according to the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB). At long last, the issue is coming into focus in Congress and has surfaced in the presidential race...
...Paula Marshall-Chapman, 47, CEO of the Bama Companies, a $140 million Tulsa, Okla., frozen-dough-and-pie concern that started in her grandmother's kitchen in 1927, the road to success has been studded with familial potholes. When Marshall-Chapman took over from her father in 1984, her two brothers were furious that they would not be involved in running the show. The business was changed from a corporation to a partnership, with Marshall-Chapman named general partner. Her parents Lilah and Paul Marshall took their equity out of the business to live on. The structure of the general...
...lives and teaches in Charlottesville, Va., became one of the rare yet growing number of landscape architects interested in doing more than just covering up abandoned sites by turning them into golf courses. Instead, she combines an archaeologist's reverence for the land's past, an environmentalist's concern for its future and an artist's appreciation of its present to create a new kind of public space...
...viewed as less important as individuals and less deserving of a place in our society. What does it matter if hurt or harm comes to such people, such thinking goes; they're not as important as the rest of us, and consequently less worthy of our regard and concern. This erosion of mutual respect is just that: a mutual loss...