Word: concern
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...students waiting to return to their rooms, the sight of eight fire trucks and columns of white smoke pouring from the grate was enough to cause concern, especially in the wake of a Jan. 19 Seton Hall University dormitory fire, which killed three students...
...reason colleges are curbing tuition increases is to attract those middle-income students. Rice University in Houston uses its $3 billion endowment to guarantee that tuition for sophomores, juniors and seniors will not leap ahead of the consumer price index. Another reason for restraint is concern that public outrage will prompt government intervention. Congress is already tackling the issue during two days of hearings this week, and President Clinton recently proposed a $31 billion package to make higher education more affordable. Now if only someone could do something about campus parking...
...addition to rewriting Europe's business rules, the Mannesmann deal marked a political watershed. When Vodafone's proposal was first announced, German Chancellor Gerhard Schroder issued a thinly veiled warning about outsiders interfering with Germany's corporate system. But in the intervening months, although labor unions expressed concern about the deal, the government never again raised the issue in a substantive...
...child is in his or her "tweens"--the awkward years between 8 and 14, when almost anyone seems cooler than Mom and Dad. While these kids are old enough to call you mean and overprotective, they're not old enough to grab the car keys. Hence my friend's concern with the stand-ins she didn't know she had appointed: the classmate's more permissive parents...
...would hope the medical community could provide some of the support she lacks in her personal life. Instead, Wit depicts a series of cold, impersonal doctors and technicians whose primary concern, beneath the senseless formalities they are required to spew, is research. In all fairness, each does work with relative competence to save Dr. Bearing's life in the face of metastasized cancer, but only one character attempts to salvage the vanishing shreds of the patient's dignity in the process. Susie (Lisa Tharps) gives a moving performance as the simple-minded nurse who ultimately proves to be more intelligent...