Word: concerned
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...Bordeaux's image to see people doubling their prices?" asks Marie Courselle at Château Thieuley, who is barely managing to avoid cutting her prices. "They are sabotaging Bordeaux's image. It's crazy that we are all put in the same basket." Indeed, a central concern in Bordeaux is to avoid a fragmentation of the community. "It's almost like a Latin American economy, some very rich and some very poor. This could cause a revolution," worries Pierre Lurton, who runs two of the most exclusive properties, Château Cheval Blanc in the St. Emilion region...
Although the BC Student Guide does not state so explicitly, the policy is intended to safeguard “sensitive Catholic subjects,” said Dunn, who cited abortion as the main topic of concern...
...open campus policy, saying that it enables “the students and faculty [to] contribute more.” He added that security measures such as required check-in for visitors keep the campus secure without metal detectors and welded windows. Committee member Alfred B. Fantini expressed concern about the effects of infractions on overall educational experience, stating that “the cost of discipline...just takes away from the effort we could put into academics.” Also at the last night’s meeting, the school district’s chief financial officer James...
...None of this is to say that I consider the wearing of the more commonplace form of hijab, a headscarf, objectionable. If people, British or otherwise, feel uncomfortable because a woman has a scarf on her head, that's not a concern to be taken seriously. Men who wear unattractive baseball caps make me uncomfortable, but I've gotten used to the world not being aesthetically designed to my taste. No, the issue is very specifically the niqab, and the obstacle it poses to human interaction and smooth integration. What does seem obvious is that the assimilation of British Muslims...
...group’s letter, signed by three dozen Harvard law students, expressed concern over the Homeland Security Department’s practice of deputizing local and state police officers to enforce immigration law. The letter said this practice, “without adequate training or oversight mechanisms, creates very real dangers of conscious or unconscious racial profiling...