Word: concerned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nights of phantom violence dramatized the dilemma that confounds the Reagan Administration in Panama and elsewhere in Central America: Is the U.S. pursuing a logical course to achieve concrete results, or is it firing wildly at uncertain targets? Drug trafficking has replaced Communism as the Administration's overriding policy concern, compounding earlier American inconsistency on the Nicaraguan contras. In switching targets, the U.S. has employed heavy-handed tactics that have failed to anticipate consequences. As a result, Washington has angered some of its closest regional allies and unleashed strong anti-American sentiments. "Things are a mess now," concedes a State...
Congressional aides say that, although the House bill is still pending in subcommittee and is not likely to come to the floor for at least a month, the highly publicized mouse patent has focused congressional concern on the patenting of animals, which legislators previously had given low priority...
PRETTY admirable, I thought, for a police officer from Central Square--not only knowing the lingo, but offering to chauffeur me home on the most crowded of streets. This police officer's concern should not have come as a surprise; after all, choosing a career in law enforcement implies a concern for the safety of the unprotected citizen...
...persistence and growth of the Boston Church of Christ should be an issue of concern and vigilance to every member of the Harvard community. The church has been known to harass potential converts with repeated calls and visits to student dorms--practices which violate an individual's right to privacy...
...church's success reflects a more pressing concern for Harvard. The church offers converts friendship and comfort in exchange for unblinking devotion, but implicitly threatens to withdraw all support if one leaves the group. Being trapped in this kind of web can isolate converts and prevent them from leaving the church...