Word: concern
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Politicians and economists are cheering, but stock traders are eyeing the exits. President Clinton Tuesday appointed Alan Greenspan to a fourth four-year term as Great Helmsman at the Fed, and while his stellar record prompted little opposition, the market appeared more concerned with his next move. Greenspan's early reappointment - his current term expires in June - frees the Fed chairman to make fiscal policy free of any concern that his job may be on the line, and that may mean an interest rate hike designed to slow the economy and head off inflation when the Fed next meets. Fear...
There should be at least a measure of concern, then, in Putin's camp, at the current state of the Chechnya campaign. Grozny is proving far more resilient than was allowed for by Russian generals who boasted three weeks ago that the Chechen capital would fall within days. Western news reports on Wednesday quoted Russian officers describing the heavy casualties their units have suffered in Grozny, and the Russian media has begun covering funerals of soldiers killed in the campaign. Although seizing Grozny would be more of a symbolic victory than anything else - the bulk of the Chechen separatist army...
...Russians--had a close call in early 1999, when then Prime Minister Yevgeni Primakov unleashed a criminal investigation. It was an alarming portent of things to come and brought home to the Family the need to find a successor who would look after their interests. What made their concern even greater was the fact that Primakov, who was fired in May, had rapidly become the front runner for the presidency...
...short, we are generally O.K. in spite of notable low spots and areas of significant concern. Our movies are mostly silly. Our books? Mostly small. The quality of our cultural criticism is generally so low that one cannot tell how good or bad any artist is, but in literature, at least, it is highly unlikely that any writer touted as a heavyweight in our era will make it to the ring in yours. Movies that once were judged by normal artistic criteria are now valued by the amount of money they make over a weekend. For your horrified amusement...
Between people and nature there may actually be less of a division than there was, say, 50 years ago. The corruption of the atmosphere, the erosion of the rain forests, the plundering of the waters are all common topics of concern. Dozens of first-rate organizations are at work on conservation, and political candidates have adopted the issue, both because it's safe and because they mean it. The trouble is that this effort may be too little, too late. You tell...