Word: concernedly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Court of Appeal unanimously overturned the conviction of a 32-year-old Los Angeles salesman in the rape of a 23-year-old waitress-hitchhiker. To help explain the decision, Justice Lynn Compton wrote that a woman who enters a stranger's car "advertises that she has less concern for the consequences than the average female." In response, Attorney Gloria Allred, a National Organization for Women coordinator, claimed the judge was ignoring "the fact that rape is an act of violence, not of sex." University of Southern California Law Professor Stephen Morse called Compton's remarks "victim-blaming...
Democratic Congressman Gerry E Studds, 40, found that fish remained the chief concern of his constituents in Massachusetts' water-girt Twelfth District, which includes Cape Cod. Happily for Studds, the fish were biting, and he was given much of the credit. Known as the "fisherman's Congressman," he sponsored the bill that extends exclusive U. S. fishing rights to 200 miles off the coast Thus Massachusetts seamen no longer have to compete with better-equipped foreign trawlers for the dwindling supply of flounder, cod and haddock. Appropriately, Studds boarded the buoy tender Bittersweet for the annual blessing...
...scale, dropped gradually from 478 in the 1962-63 academic year into the 430s. The median mathematics score slipped from 502 into the 470s. In 1975, when the combined score plunged eleven points in just one year, alarmed parents and educators demanded to know why. The widespread concern prompted the College Entrance Examination Board and the Educational Testing Service, which sponsor and develop the exam, to commission an independent panel to study the decline...
...region from appropriate agencies, as well as the U.N. mission. No small part of his effectiveness is his own record in the civil rights and anti-Viet Nam War movements. Whether arguing the merits of nonviolent solutions in southern Africa or assuring his listeners that Carter's concern for human rights is for real, Young is able to draw on that background to speak persuasively and authoritatively...
...bottlers employing some 6,000 people, and runs one plant of its own that makes the concentrate. Their growth, snorts Fernandes, is a "classic example" of how a foreign company can amass power by quietly focusing efforts on frills like soft drinks instead of on areas of intense national concern, such as high technology. He claims that Coke reaps 400% profit margins in its dealings with Indian bottlers...