Word: concerned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...official level, the Soviets have shown no concern over the meeting planned between Reagan and Soviet refuseniks. At a press conference to discuss the forthcoming summit, U.S. affairs expert Georgy A. Arbatov and Communist Party Central Committee official Nikolai Shishlin both stated that they considered Reagan's meeting partners his own business...
Although some faculty members have expressed concern that the committee will not work well because it represents such a wide spectrum of political views on the faculty, Tribe said that there were no problems at the committee's first meeting on May 17 and that he expected the members to continue to work well together...
...reports on CBS, the problems of inner-city ghettos have moved to the forefront of public attention in the last decade. The rates of crime, out-of-wedlock births, female-headed house-holds and joblessness in the inner cities rose drastically throughout the 1970s and 1980s, to the growing concern of politicians and public policy makers...
Even parlor operators are getting the message. Rich Boggs, president of an Atlanta company that runs four health clubs, removed all but two of the clubs' ten tanning machines a year ago. His concern was justified: based on a survey of 62 hospitals, the Consumer Product Safety Commission estimates that there were 1,781 emergency visits nationwide last year for injuries related to tanning booths. The year before, Teenagers Jennifer Tyree and Aida Sabato suffered excruciating eye pain after visiting a Manhattan tanning parlor. Reason: because they did not wear protective goggles, their corneas were seared by overexposure...
...labor expert said, "If the administration had wanted to win at all costs, they could have." Maybe the administration is extremely concerned for employee relations after all. But in actions ranging from its willful disregard of student input to its inability to eradicate institutional sexism, the administration has yet to prove concern for anything but self-perpetuation. Maybe having a union with 3400 members to contend with will be enough to loosen the hierarchy's hold on power and spur reform...