Word: concerned
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Still, Roth's concern that he is the only one who will care about this book seems unwarranted. It is fascinating to watch a major writer re-examine his life, trying to extricate reality from the tales it later inspired. Sometimes, as he has so often pointed out, the gap between the two proves enormous. Roth describes his Newark childhood in warm, elegiac terms that completely invert the cramped, maddening domesticity endured by Alexander Portnoy: "Our lower- middle-class neighborhood of houses and shops -- a few square miles of tree-lined streets at the corner of the city bordering...
...however, the low-lying delta country, laced and often lashed by three great river systems, is still a "basket case," the cruel epithet thrust upon it at the time of its independence. A calamitous series of floods, cyclones and war-inflicted suffering have made it a focus of international concern from its inception...
...choice of a new dean has been deemed critical to the future of the school, which has been shaken by ideological battles among its faculty in recent years. While the appointment may help heal these rifts, some at the school have expressed concern that the appointment process itself may only perpetuate division...
...fashion the school system it deserves. While looking through different lenses, both seem to view federal education spending as a frilly, bloated social program rather than as a vital national-security program at least equal in priority to maintaining strong armed forces. During the Reagan years, despite growing concern about huge deficits, the largest peacetime military buildup in the nation's history boosted spending for defense 37% in inflation-adjusted dollars to annual levels of nearly $300 billion. Federal outlays for elementary and secondary education were reduced nearly 20% during the same period. Given that history, perhaps the next President...
...rush for independent testing angers some competitors and government officials, who contend that federal and state inspections provide ample safety. Not everyone is so sure. Fully 75% of the consumers surveyed in a Gallup poll last year said that pesticide contamination was a major concern to them. The National Academy of Sciences and the General Accounting Office have both issued studies that question the effectiveness of Federal Government & produce inspection, which typically samples only 1% of all fruits and vegetables sold...