Word: concerned
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...protesting intellectuals particularly criticized the Amazon project that is of most concern to ecologists: a proposed road across the western state of Acre to Pucallpa, Peru, where it would link up with a Peruvian highway that stretches over the Andes to Lima. The highway link would provide Acre with a Pacific outlet for its tropical hardwoods, which are much in demand in Japan. It would also open up the western Amazon for the first time to the kind of commercial exploitation that, in the view of environmentalists, would lead to devastation...
...sinking was a sharp blow to the Soviet navy. The prototype sub represented state-of-the-art Soviet design, impressive enough to prompt concern in Washington that U.S. superiority in undersea warfare might be imperiled. The Mike-class vessel was put in service in 1984 and was the only one of its class afloat. Experts believe it was used to test new design and propulsion features. The sinking marked at least the fifth such Soviet loss in 30 years. In the most recent major disaster, a Yankee-class Soviet sub burned and sank in the Atlantic in October 1986. Three...
Feminist scholars are also questioning long-held assumptions in other areas. Catharine MacKinnon, who championed legal redress for sexual harassment on the job, is reframing the debate on pornography. MacKinnon, a visiting professor at Yale Law School, maintains that the central concern is not obscenity but sexual discrimination, because pornography hurts women and violates their civil rights. In a controversial stance that has pitted her against many feminists and civil libertarians, she favors granting injunctions against pornographers who "traffic in materials that can be proven to subordinate women...
...final criticism is that under the Nunn/McCurdy plan, rich students are excluded, thereby polarizing society's class structure. Mr. Baer asks "how can we as a democratic nation take seriously a policy that explicitly exempts the rich from requirements made of the citizenry?" This is a valid concern, something that the Citizens Corps does not address...
...study in the same issue of the journal described the level of AIDS infection in Brazil. Dr. David D. Ho of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center In Los Angeles, senior author of the study, agreed with Quinn's concern...