Word: concerned
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...Beijing Replacing the Dollar? In a sign of growing concern over the U.S. economy, the head of China's central bank proposed implementing a new currency-reserve system that could ease the country's reliance on the dollar. Experts say the move underlines China's desire to take a leadership role in the global response to the financial crisis. Still, few analysts expect the dollar to be replaced by what Zhou Xiaochuan called a new "supersovereign reserve currency" in the foreseeable future. China, which holds nearly $2 trillion in foreign-exchange reserves, is the U.S.'s largest creditor...
...environmental protection has been the province—almost exclusively —of relatively rich white men and women. The lack of involvement from inner-city and minority communities is one of the greatest failings of the movement. While environmental justice issues involving these communities have garnered increasing concern in the last several years, the problems with engaging a broader audience run deeper than environmental justice issues...
...recent Pew poll found that, among the public, global warming ranked last of 20 possible policy problems. More importantly, however, the poll found a serious disconnect between concern over the environment and global warming. While it is heartening that the environment was not listed last, it is worrying that people see a difference between the environment and global warming. These two policy problems are inextricably linked, and dealing with one means dealing with the other. That this poll separates them indicates a serious lack of understanding of the problem...
...take advantage of hitters’ counts,” Douglas said.In last year’s Beanpot game against the Huskies, Rogers, Douglas, then-junior Taylor Meehan, and then-freshmen Sean O’Hara and Dillon O’Neill all had multi-hit games.The big concern for Harvard, however, is the availability of its pitchers.“Coming off a four-game weekend, including one that went 17 innings, it puts an awful lot of pressure on our pitching staff,” Crimson coach Joe Walsh said. “We’re going...
...Literature, said that his advising experience “has been pretty amazing.” He attributes his experience in the department to the faculty, especially Jeanne F. Quinn, director of studies for the department. She makes herself very accessible, knows every concentrator by first name, and concerns herself with everyone’s well-being, he said.“She sets an attitude for the rest of the faculty,” Wiggins said. “The level of communication between professors and students—awareness of all the students and what they?...