Word: concern
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...going to see that there is a general concern in a number of different areas," Darling says. "But I doubt that it's going to help the council pick which ones it's going to address...
Still, a million people is a pathetic and arbitrary goal to strive for. If he's looking for a challenge, Archer should concern himself with having the best public education system, the lowest unemployment rate or the strictest environmental codes. While it is certainly an admirable undertaking to try and get every citizen counted, the purpose for doing so should be just that--to make sure that every person receives the appropriate federal resources...
...ballad tempo over fugue. But Mehldau, like Bach, is at his best slowed down. Like Glenn Gould playing 32nd trills as eighth notes, Mehldau proves that virtuosity is not dependent on quick pace alone. Yet even at a more leisurely speed, Mehldau's improvisational line exhibits an overall concern with counterpoint, which at once indicates his post-bop tendencies and classical training. But here they tend to be more appropriate, as Mehldau's impromptus have a tendency to fall into the trap of classical meter at brisker tempos...
...faced with grief, trauma or starvation will be rendered incompetent by the sight,'' Sante muses. Nachtwey's work, however, manages to avoid the luridness of a snuff film by being laced with sympathy. There is no doubt in flipping through these photographs that they are taken with the utmost concern for the afflicted, that they are taken, as Nachtwey says in his afterword, as "an appeal to the reader's best instincts-a spirit of generosity, a sense of right and wrong, the ability and willingness to identify with others the refusal to accept the unacceptable...
...nation committed to democracy, the increasingly undemocratic character of our presidential primaries is a matter of serious concern. Both Vice President Al Gore '69 and Texas Gov. George W. Bush had their parties' nominations in the bag by March 7, before half of eligible voters had even had a chance to make their voices heard. This system is not "one man, one vote." And so we welcome a recent Republican committee proposal, the so-called Delaware plan, as a definite step in the right direction...