Word: concern
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...survey now asks how involved the council should be in "potentially controversial issues of student concern," such as the living wage campaign...
...says she also thinks the census will expose major student concern about the lack of gender, ethnic and racial diversity in the Faculty, as well as deep dissatisfaction with the quality of academic advising and course selection in the Core...
...West Africa in reported comments that appeared to equate Sierra Leone?s murderous rebels with Nelson Mandela?s African National Congress. But even without Jesse Jackson, negotiations inevitably involve give and take, and the rebels' call for a halt to any U.N. or government counteroffensive reflects their primary concern to maintain control of Sierra Leone's diamond fields to the south and east. Indeed, it was U.N. attempts to disarm the RUF in those areas, in line with last year's peace deal, that sparked the latest outbreak of violence. Most observers believe Sierra Leone's troubles will...
WORST NEWS OF THE DAY In Japan a glitch shuts down a radiation alarm at a nuclear plant, causing concern but no leaks...
...Hamad. "And sources close to Arafat say he's already agreed, at the urging of President Clinton, to postpone his promised unlilateral declaration of a state until after the U.S. election. Both sides are also having to deal with mounting domestic challenges. Barak faces defections from his coalition, while concern over the reaction of the Palestinian street and of his Arab allies makes it almost impossible for Arafat to accept the current Israeli proposals on the West Bank and Jerusalem." The "peace of the brave" of which Arafat and Yitzhak Rabin spoke has long since followed the slain Israeli leader...