Word: concerned
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...consider it an unqualified success," Bredesen tells TIME, speaking about the 338 jobs created by the pilot program. "I wanted to do more than show concern. These are people with real obligations and, while I support clean energy [the thrust of much of the stimulus], people have to make car payments next month. I'd love to have a great deal more stimulus money to do this type of thing in other counties, but there is not a lot of money available. If there is another stimulus package, real consideration should be given to direct employment, in WPA fashion...
...Does this House provision for funding end-of-life counseling concern you? This provision says that people should talk about what their goals of care are and what they want at the end of life. That could be anything. This is an opportunity for patients and physicians to share information with each other and come up with a plan. It is one of the special things about being a physician. You get to know your patient and what matters to them, and their inner thoughts, and their lives, and that's a very special role that most physicians value...
...chief concern was the safety of the statue once the compound was being used to launch attacks on government forces. Later that same afternoon, the priests received orders from the bishop to remove the sacred relic and take it farther north, deeper into Tiger-held areas, rather than risk heading for the front. The journey that evening, to start at 6:30, was still fraught. Emilianuspillai recalls not just shelling but a heavy rain delaying departure and then, nearly a mile into the journey, a shell falling near the vehicle in front of the one bearing the statue...
...Although Suu Kyi's sentencing met with the usual condemnation from Western powers, the United Nations on Thursday issued a relatively muted statement expressing "serious concern" for the 64-year-old's continued confinement. A previous draft that castigated the junta more strenuously did not survive opposition from Russia and China, which are generally loathe to comment on human-rights issues in other countries...
There's been a great deal of concern in the international community that there has been no accountability within the Sudanese government for its actions in Darfur - thus we have the arrest warrants issued by the ICC earlier this year. The reaction from your government has been mixed: On the one hand, it's been dismissive of the ICC and said that it's a "terrorist organization." At the same time, your government has taken it quite seriously and viewed it as a real threat. Which is it? How do you perceive the ICC's arrest warrants...