Word: concernedly
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...rating could fall even further. Only a few weeks ago, Congressmen visiting their districts were hearing almost nothing about Lance from constituents. Now some of them are hearing almost nothing else. Reports from TIME's U.S. bureaus confirm this concern. Atlanta Bureau Chief Rudolph Rauch noted that Carter's support of Lance?"Bert, I'm proud of you"?is proving costly: "With that declaration Carter managed to obliterate the one element that made him different?the innocence of the outsider, the incorruptibility of the unentrenched. That difference was his major hold on the American people." Other bureaus saw that...
Lack of adequate federal funding for special education programs, in fact, is a primary concern of most states, and the National Education Association as well. "The act has wonderful goals, which we fully support, but the money isn't there to do the job and do it right," says NEA Official John Sullivan. While the start-up costs of the program have been estimated at $4 billion to $5 billion, funds authorized by Congress total only $387 million for the current school year and $775 million for the 1978-79 year. The states or local school districts, most...
...infighting is only a sympton of a larger battle over athletics taking place in the administration. The alumni's concern over the appointment of a non-Harvard "outsider" to run the department is more than just a clubhouse expression of faith in Harvard's supposed superiority. It also reflects a greater fear that someone not connected with the University might de-emphasize intercollegiate athletics and concentrate too much effort on building up an intramural sports program and making facilities available to graduate students and faculty...
...which was supposed to stimulate development. By the late '60s, however, this theory had been severely challenged by critics who argued that it merely widened the gap between a small elite and the poor masses of the developing country. Cole says institute projects have developed "much more of a concern for the poorest of the poor, the people who have been bypassed by development efforts at the national and regional efforts for the past 30 years...
Members of the minority task force had expressed concern that the new admissions administrator not be mere window dressing. They rejected suggestions by some faculty members that the new administrator work primarily as a counselor for minorities as "based on a mistaken belief that minority students' lives are problem oriented...