Word: concerned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...economy to a halt. Many South African businessmen say privately that the most effective economic sanction of all would be for the millions of black workers simply to stay at home until the government agrees to negotiate. This does not happen, says a diplomat in Pretoria, because "the primary concern of most blacks in South Africa is money. The secondary concern is possible political gain in the future. There is no revolution in sight...
...enforcement officials maintain that fears of rampant intrusions into privacy are exaggerated. "Concern that police or federal agents will be searching everybody's trash is kind of ridiculous," says Federal District Judge Robert Bonner, former U.S. Attorney in Los Angeles. Administration drug czar William Bennett says he was "infuriated" by criticisms last week that the Administration's program relied too heavily on law enforcement at the expense of treatment. Complains Bennett: "If anything like this kind of situation were going on in the suburbs, residents would raise holy hell and say, 'Call in the police!' But if we're talking...
...nature in several books, including Silent Partners, which considers the implications of language experiments with apes. For this week's article Linden spent ten days crisscrossing the region by air, water and land to assess the Amazon's chances for survival. Says Linden: "The question is whether the concern everyone now has about the environment will translate into meaningful action...
...might seem natural that Iriye, whose central childhood images concern world war and who has split time between the U.S. and Japan for years, would be a specialist in what...
...period tagged a decade of greed, which followed a "me generation" and a so-called age of permissiveness, the return of concern is encouraging. And, 25 years after the Civil Rights Act was passed, and 20 years after such politics culminated in students taking over University Hall, the tumult was refreshing...