Word: concernedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite these practical applications, many scientists share Physicist Everhart's concern about the space mirrors. Biologists fear that decreasing the hours of darkness could disturb the delicate circadian rhythms that control many life processes. Other scientists envision a mirror swinging out of control, reflecting sunlight indiscriminately over the night face of the earth. Even more alarming to Everhart is the potential proliferation of the mirrors. "Farmers would demand them to plow their fields at night," he says, "and resort owners would want them to light their lakes and pools." Singlehanded, Everhart has mounted an intensive campaign to rally...
...there is one quality common to all these stories from the dual Anglo-American tradition as well as European sources, it is the concern for fiction as a revelation of the truth. The private vision, because it seeks no corroborating evidence, must carry conviction of itself. It is this seriousness-even in the comic vein of a Saul Bellow-which makes Jean-Paul Sartre's satirical portrait of a protoFascist, Childhood of a Leader, seem as frivolous in this company as a mere cartoon. The same quality makes the similarity-a glum but grimly maintained Freudo-Marxist determinism-between...
...interest in quality control and the protection of its "goodwill" that the petty abortionist is unlikely to have. As it is, the costs external to the enterprise--the costs that fall not on the abortionist but on customer or on the reputation of other abortionists--are of little concern to him and he has no incentive to minimize them. By all accounts, criminal abortion is conducted more incompetently and more irresponsibly than the illegal control of gambling...
...have dropped to a more sustainable increase of 7%, and the bond market, which had been disrupted because the banks were cashing in, is recovering. Money will remain very scarce despite the board's action last week, but it is a signal that the Federal Reserve's concern about the dangers of inflation is now balanced by its recognition of the downturn hazards for the economy if money is kept too tight...
...controversy over the draft was stimulated last Spring by students, who collected 1500 signatures on petitions asking for a referendum on the College's policy of ranking. The Administration resisted the referendum, but Dean Ford promised the ranking issue would be raised before the Faculty in the Fall. The concern over deferments grew from...