Word: concerned
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...Your top concern is the safety of your membership fee. Most clubs agree to refund 80% when you quit. So insist on proof that the club has enough assets to fully refund all members. Ask how long it takes to get a refund. Most clubs won't pay until they get two or three new members--a problem if growth stalls...
...chief of the Lebanese Army, recently admitted that his troops would be able to contain a series of demonstrations "for only a few weeks." If Hizballah organizes protests around the country similar to those in Beirut last week, "We will not be able to cope," Suleiman reportedly said. His concern was that because many of his troops are Shi'ite, they would refuse to act against their brethren within Hizballah...
...images is that they display an action and its consequences from the distance of a plane and a camera lens—just far enough to encompass a vision that our own eyes normally crop.Like MacLean’s photographs, the work of Anne Whiston Spirn reveals a profound concern with the consequences of human efforts to shape nature. But where MacLean takes viewers miles above his subjects, Spirn forces them to look even more closely than they normally might. In 1986’s “Column of Victory, Army of Trees,” an infinitely tall...
...perceptions of both the risks and rewards of driving a car. The considerations could include getting to work or meeting a friend for dinner on time, impressing a companion with his driving skills, bolstering his image of himself as an accomplished driver. They could also include his concern for his own safety and desire to live to a ripe old age, his feelings of responsibility for a toddler with him in a car seat, the cost of banging up his shiny new car or losing his license. Nor will these possible concerns exist in a vacuum. He will be taking...
...year old company that consults to big pharma firms, says that violent revolution is extremely unlikely but that other problems - rising crime, resentment, social instability, pockets of armed rebels - will get worse unless the gap between India's rich and poor can be narrowed. "There's obviously enough concern that everyone is talking about it," he says...