Word: concerned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Promoting diversity among faculty, staff and students is a primary concern of the KSSG, said KSSG Co-Chair Shari Davis...
...weather forecast--clear skies and mild temperatures--was favorable for launch. Only the possibility of strong high-altitude winds gave any concern, and NASA officials said wind conditions at midnight were acceptable...
...approved last week as Secretary of Health and Human Services. To avoid possible confirmation complications, Sullivan renounced all claims to nearly $500,000 in severance pay and deferred compensation legally owed him by the Morehouse School of Medicine. Even Senate Democrats wondered aloud if Sullivan's excessive concern with appearances did not overstep the bounds of financial prudence. Meanwhile, George Bush's ethics commission solemnly debated whether a top Government official should be entitled to royalties if he composed a hit song in his spare time...
...powerful in Congress is what allows Tower to so adroitly muddy the waters surrounding his own ethical problems. The everybody-does-it defense may be cynical, but it has persuasive power, as long as Congress continues to confuse honor with honorariums. Ethics in government should be a bipartisan concern, not merely the responsibility of the Bush Administration. If the White House has fallen short of the standards it set during its much ballyhooed "ethics week," so too has the Democratic Congress been unwilling to judge itself by the criteria it sets for others...
Recognizing the growing concern among passengers and Washington lawmakers, the aviation industry issued a report last week calling for a sweeping overhaul of its older planes. The $800 million renovation would help rejuvenate the 3,300-jet U.S. fleet, which averages 13 years of service per jetliner and is the oldest in the non-Communist world. The industry report, prepared by a task force of public and private experts, urged carriers to repair or replace critical parts on 1,300 vintage Boeing aircraft. The study, launched after a large section of fuselage ripped off an Aloha Airlines 737 last April...