Word: concerned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...world-watched a gas bubble build up in a nuclear reactor at Three Mile Island near Harrisburg, Pa., and threaten to cause a hydrogen gas explosion that would spew radiation into the atmosphere. When the bubble finally disappeared and the danger subsided, deep relief was mingled with grave concern about the nuclear future...
...strategic matters also, U.S. analysts believe that Islam and the West have compatible goals. Basically, Islamic states are antiCommunist. Says a senior State Department official: "I think we share a common concern and can work together to develop a set of friendly relationships, which can lead to ultimate stability in the region." Whether or not that proves to be the case, the West can no longer afford to ignore or dismiss the living power of the Prophet's message...
Iraq. The revolution in Iran has been a cause for some concern in the ruling Baath Party; its leadership is Sunni, while 52% of Iraq's 12 million people are Shi'ites. As in Iran, the mullahs have a tradition of political activism, and there have been violent clashes between religious dissidents and the regime's 125,000-man all-Sunni "popular army." Although government corruption and mismanagement of oil wealth are not major issues, General Saddam Hussein runs a tough police state: dissent is ruthlessly suppressed and Iraqi jails are said to hold thousands of political prisoners. The government...
What proves most alarming in the aftermath of the entire Pennsylvania affair is the incompetence, misinformation, misdirection and unpreparedness of the so-called experts who were attempting to handle the Three Mile Island accident. Despite early promises that the reactor shutdown was "routine" and a matter of "little concern" to the public, the situation turned out to be one of the most serious accidents in the annals of atomic power...
...under bracket of the Seventeen Tournament of Champions. She traveled to Mission Viejo, Calif., only to meet Tracey Austin in the first round. Needless to say, Austin ran off with the win. But as Richmond says, "There were so many people and T.V. cameras there--my main concern was just not to trip and fall on the tennis court."--She didn...