Word: concern
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2000
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...favorite stories involves Gregory Kirchner, a former Army medic and now a retired postal worker in Pennsylvania. He had written me asking for help in locating the widow of a friend, Sergeant Glenn Jones, who died in the Battle of the Bulge. Sergeant Jones' final words were expressions of concern for his wife and the child they were about to have. For more than a half-century, Kirchner had wanted to find Mrs. Jones to share her husband's last words...
...sides had been close to agreement on trade matters, the Clinton administration was politically unable to press a deal with Beijing amid the fallout from nuclear espionage allegations.) But skepticism over rapid reform has grown over the past year, less because of Maoist nostalgia than out of concern that its immediate consequences - massive unemployment with no social safety net - will provoke widespread unrest that could undermine Beijing's grip on power. It was the same concern to maintain order that drove the crackdown last year on the Falun Gong religious sect, which while it had no obvious political agenda represented...
...halt U.S. aid in order to stop Israeli settlement activity in the West Bank and East Jerusalem - a form of leverage as unthinkable during Clinton's tenure as moving the embassy would have been on President Bush's watch. (Of course President Bush was substantially driven by a concern, less important to the Clinton administration, to maintain the support of moderate Arab regimes in the showdown with Iraq...
While the presence of a professional theater company on campus may be a wonderful opportunity for Harvard's undergraduate drama community, the fact that students are limited in the use of the few available performance facilities is grounds for serious concern. Harvard's commitment should be to undergraduates, and the University should make every effort to foster creativity among its students; the many dance groups on campus certainly will gain needed prominence with a mainstage slot. As owner of the Loeb Drama Center, Harvard should accept the Steering Committee's proposal and work to establish the fifth show. The dance...
...bickering or living-room wrestling matches or noogies. Forty-one percent of American families get to run noogieless households, with only one child present. But for the rest, and for the increasing number of families that are blending stepchildren together, relationships among brothers and sisters are of paramount concern--as they should be. As one of four children--the one who was once caught fighting with a sister over a ball of lint--I can say with authority that positive sibling relationships can be a source of strength for life, whereas unresolved early conflicts can create wounds that never quite...