Word: concerned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...whelmed by the pomp and circumstance surrounding a Harvard graduation; picnics, lobster clambakes, dances, house ceremonies, yard ceremonies, church ceremonies, etc. After surviving four years of hard work, seniors do deserve a graduation to remember. However, my growing anticipation of June 7-9 has been darkened by my growing concern about holding the event during the middle of the working week and the expense of graduation that must be incurred by the student and his/her family...
...could not happen in any court still observing the fundamentals of the Constitution. In Speed-the-Plow Mamet makes the unastonishing revelation that movie moguls are venal and pandering. Perhaps he means to prick spectators' consciences by holding them responsible for the box-office triumph of trivia over moral concern...
Passengers were concerned as well. Not long ago, they were focusing their airborne anxiety on such problems as crowded skies, rookie pilots and overstressed controllers. Now they have a new concern: the soundness of the jets. Are some planes too old? Are others sent aloft with known malfunctions? The financial competitiveness wrought by deregulation has raised suspicions, deserved or not, that some carriers may be courting disaster by skimping on maintenance and diligence...
...three presidential candidates are dropping in on day-care centers to dramatize their concern. Jackson proclaims in every speech, "We can either fund Head Start and child care and day care on the front side of life, or welfare and jail care on the back side of life." He offers a program of federal subsidies and tax credits calculated to extend day care to 2.6 million additional children, more than double those who would be helped by the most ambitious proposal advanced by other Democrats...
Bush, for the moment at least, is in a bind. Asked for his views on child care recently, the Vice President quipped, "I'm for it," before more seriously voicing deep concern. Right now all he can do is promise to make a major speech on the issue in June and put forth some guidelines (no new federal bureaucracy; help only to the poor, not the middle class) that will shape his position once...