Word: concern
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2000
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...late '90s New York City. While we've seen a narcissistic Hamlet, a visceral Hamlet and a verbose Hamlet, now we have the young prince in a world of laptops and limousines, cellular phones and c-notes, Mercedes and martinis. Elsinore is an apartment building, Denmark is a financial concern, Fortinbras attempts a hostile takeover and Ethan Hawke plays the title role...
Seltzer was named the 1996-97 recipient of the Radcliffe Junior Faculty Fellowship at the Bunting Institute, a fellowship that allowed her to begin her work on VINO. That fellowship was established in 1995 out of a concern about the low percentage of tenured women professors. Seltzer has proved that such programs allowing talented junior faculty to pursue their research away from the demands of administrative work and teaching can be useful. In fact, the demands of the tenure process are almost simultaneous with the demands with parenting. Programs which alleviate some demands on junior faculty during their prime parenting...
...Gore and Bush favor extending the moratorium but stop there. How tough is this issue? A blue-ribbon panel at press time voted 10-8 not to tax the Internet. Their recommendation has been sent to Congress for review. Whether the massacre on NASDAQ in mid-April will ameliorate concern about this issue on Capitol Hill remains to be seen. But experts such as Christopher Wysocki, president of the Small Business Survival Committee, a lobbying group in Washington, believe taxing e-commerce would put the entire Internet sector into a tailspin. Says Wysocki: "It would change the rules...
LOWERING HEALTH-CARE COSTS This is the No. 1 concern of small-business owners. According to the NFIB, 60% of the 44.3 million Americans without health insurance are entrepreneurs, their families and employees. One reason is the high cost of state-mandated insurance plans, which can require small firms to buy broad insurance policies with pricey offerings most entrepreneurs cannot afford. To help alleviate the problem, many small firms want to band together to form association health plans with national bargaining power. A bill proposed by Republican Representative James Talent of Missouri would allow this and make small business exempt...
...zero by 2010. And G.O.P. Governor George W. Bush of Texas has vowed to kill the tax outright if elected President. Many Democrats agree with Vice President Al Gore that a repeal would be a sop to the rich. But others believe the benefits for small companies outweigh that concern. Democratic Representative John Tanner of Tennessee, for one, is co-sponsoring Dunn's bill, and there seem to be enough like-minded Democrats to fashion a compromise on the issue...