Word: concerned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rented space in an old grade school, we talked about what the society is trying to do, and how he had gotten involved. Like Mr. Cameron, Hyland cares about the fate of lighthouses. His interest though, is rooted not in any local ties, but in a more general concern for lighthouses around the nation...
Chairman of the Federal Election Commission Thomas Josefiak expressed his concern with the commission's inability to regulate abuses in the system and called for Congress to change the laws by which the commission is bound. "The biggest problem is not with us," said Josefiak. "It is with the law. All we do is enforce the law as it is written...
Merrill, who has been called the greatest poet since Robert Lowell, frequently paused in his reading, at one point expressing concern about lack of room in the 150 seat auditorium...
...addition to this swift and direct intervention, confidence was maintained by the existence of safety nets and regulatory bodies created during the 1930s, including federal deposit insurance, Social Security and unemployment compensation. There was not a murmur of concern about the banking system since the public assumed, correctly, that the Government was the lender of last resort...
...club features a stripper doing the "Dance of a Couple of Veils." In the even less developed parts of the world, O'Rourke predicts a "festival of Malthusianism." On the up side, he gives two cheers for Western civilization, "the first in history to show even the slightest concern for average, undistinguished, none-too-commendable people like us." It may not be what the Founding Fathers had in mind, but neither did they envision that their liberal political philosophy would produce no-fault auto insurance and gifted wise guys like O'Rourke...