Word: concerned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...London, Nixon will spend virtually an entire day with Prime Minister Harold Wilson, probably with time out for tea with Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace. One particular area of concern to Wilson is U.S. cooperation in advancing Britain's nuclear technology. The British would like to fit multiple-target nuclear warheads to their Polaris missiles, as the U.S. has already done with some of its intercontinental missiles. Since the U.S. is increasingly sensitive to French charges of favoring Britain with nuclear know-how that it denies to others, the British regard the warhead question as a key indicator...
Almost immediately, the police investigations began to assume an importance far beyond that normally accorded to a simple killing. No fewer than seven inspectors were assigned to the case, a mark of genuine concern, and the Interior Minister was reported to be in regular contact with investigators. Soon some of the story began to get out. Markovic had proved exceptionally able at turning up pretty young girls for his friends; moreover, he produced photographic records of their activities from his private albums even when such mementos were not requested. Properly businesslike, he kept detailed records of the transactions-and there...
...Jewish parents; the Monkey is the apotheosis of the contemporary Id Girl; and Portnoy embodies not only the tics of a man trying to disentangle himself from his background, but also the latent fear of the liberal humanist that he may find himself out. It is no small concern to the Assistant Commissioner of Human Opportunity, champion of the underprivileged, that the human opportunities he really cares about wear skirts...
...weeks, Leven planned to mount a completely new show. As he envisioned it, "It's going to concern an odyssey by subway after the subway moves into another mathematical system." By employing the odyssey archtype, Leven hoped to aim at flexibility within a series of developed episodes, dealing with a variety of Cambridge types. He insisted the new show would have structural, as well as intellectual, humor. It all sounded a shade too cerebral, but Leven was convinced that, at last, he had hit upon the solution...
...issue are Europe's so-called value-added taxes, or VAT, a complex substitute for sales and excise taxes. Washington contends that VAT penalizes American exports and gives a substantial price advantage to many European goods shipped into the U.S. Concern has heightened since the U.S. foreign trade surplus shrank from almost $8 bil lion in 1964 to $726 million...