Word: concerned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...group states its concern over "what appears to be a conflict between our objectives of a negotiated settlement and other statements of government officials...
...according to which all the laws of nature can be condensed into eight tri-grams and 64 hexagrams, down to such didactic concepts as the five relationships, the six domestic animals, the seven apertures of the head, etc. The mystical rather than analytical preoccupation with numbers, plus a practical concern with ethics, explains in part why China failed for so long to develop natural sciences. In a society where scholarship emphasized rote memory of officially interpreted historical accounts rather than deductive reasoning, there was little room-or need-to seek new knowledge; everything under the Chinese sun had already happened...
...admissions policy: roughly 15 per cent of every entering class are "really brilliant students who appear to possess sound character and personality"; the rest, given adequate academic ability, are accepted on the basis of an incredible variety of factors ranging from "rural or small-town background" to "concern for the public good...
...bread and butter issues and also deal with important social issues. In the bill of particulars spelling out the UAW's displeasures with the AFL Reuther charged that "the AFL-CIO is becoming increasingly the comfortable, complacent custodian of the status quo." One of Reuther's major areas of concern has been civil rights. He has directed much criticism towards the discriminatory practices of the building trades unions and Meany is a past president of the plumbers union. One of the first open battles Meany and Reuther had concerned the Civil Rights March in 1963. Reuther served...
Some of the other problems the committee will confront will be tougher to deal with, since they concern the premises of education, not administration. But Clark Byse, the committee's forthright and open-minded chairman, has encouraged his group to be responsive to the students-at-large, to meet objections openly, and give the Law School's students a sense of influence on their education which has heretofore been denied them...