Word: concern
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Though Meselson has devoted himself to fighting biological weapons, he believes that much of the public concern represents wasted energy...
Lynda Clemmons, vice president at Enron, a Houston energy concern that buys and sells weather derivatives, says the concept emerged when companies' needs weren't being met by traditional insurance. "Insurance companies were saying, 'We can help you if a hurricane blows down your factory but not if it's 6[degrees] warmer this winter and your revenue drops,'" Clemmons says. The deregulation of the energy industry in 1995 meant that a new category of highly weather-sensitive businesses was suddenly forced to make a profit and became very interested in a product that could protect it from weather risks...
Naishtat and other Democrats believe that the harshness of Bush's positions sprang from his concern for winning Republican presidential primaries. "He did not want to leave himself open to attack on the right by appearing lenient," says Naishtat. House Democrat Glen Maxey remembers a day at the end of the 1999 session when Bush was pumping hard for his full-family-sanctions bill. Maxey and Naishtat were in the members' lounge when Bush aide Terral Smith walked in. "He sat down between us and said, 'We need y'all to have a meeting today to vote'" on the bill...
...think the Internet is going to change everything, so why not politics? Most important are the entrepreneurs developing software for online voting. Imagine the retail price of that software, then multiply it by every state and municipal government, and suddenly a lot of Internet capitalists develop a deeply felt concern for boosting voter turnout...
...concern to both Bush and the party is that his national appeal has been damaged in his attempt to curry favor among conservatives in South Carolina. While Bush campaigns on the centrist-tinged platform of "compassionate conservatism," his right-leaning tour through the Palmetto State - including a controversial appearance at Bob Jones University, which bans interracial dating - has left McCain standing tall in the center and Bush pushed to the fringes. In addition, the latest polls show McCain with a much greater chance of defeating Al Gore or Bill Bradley in November. "You can already see others...