Word: concern
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...only concern for Cambridgeport, Keegan says, is whether it has space to expand...
...necessarily, the subjects of Coles' writing lent themselves to social progress. Concern over Coles' Still Hungry in America directly provoked the food stamp program of the late 1960s...
...policies, since the award winner as currently selected must be a woman. However, despite a similar legal review, the College will be giving the Paul Revere Frothingham Scholarship and similar prizes which list among the characteristics "manliness" and are given only to men. While we support the University's concern for Title IX and its desire to see all prizes open to male or female recepients, we consider the short-term decisions made for this year unfortunate. If eligibility for any of the prizes is, according to the donor's wishes, gender-specific, we urge the College to designate...
...Saint Augustine is a permanent concern of mine," says Wills. "He has been my hero and favorite writer and thinker since college. I had been looking for the opportunity to write a short life." Gordon recalls Atlas' phone call asking her if she'd be interested in contributing a Penguin Lives volume: "It was as if a lightning bolt hit me. I said, 'Yes, I'd like to do Joan of Arc.' I've been really fascinated by her since I was a little girl." Although she was teaching at Barnard College and working on a novel, she does...
...While Europe's fears of missile defense are grounded in real fears of a Russian escalation that would directly threaten their security, its concerns over genetically altered crops may be more culturally based. To be sure, the continent's headline writers use terms such as "contamination" to refer to the introduction of genetically altered seed in Europe, whereas such practices are commonplace in the U.S. But while some in Washington may suspect this concern disguises a more basic economic nationalism, it may also be a reflection of deep philosophical differences. "There's a fundamental difference in attitude at work...