Word: concernedly
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Menachem Begin has been to Washington before, though never as the leader of the one nation in the world to which the U.S. currently allots more money, more aid and more concern than any other, regardless of size. If the Israeli Premier's meeting this week with President Carter could be held before an audience, the event would be S.R.O. For at stake in this summit meeting is not only the future of the unique relationship between Israel and the U.S., but the prospects for any major progress toward a Middle East settlement...
...Administration had openly shown concern about-and had warned against-the hard-line policies of the new Premier's government. But at his press conference last week, the President went out of his way to indicate that Begin would get a warm reception. Said Carter: "I think that [he] is trying to bring with him an open mind and an ability to go to a possible peace conference with all items being negotiable." Begin was equally conciliatory. Boarding an El Al 747 jet with his wife Aliza, he said at Tel Aviv's Ben-Gurion Airport...
...presidency, Jimmy Carter was delighted to accept the belated support of organized labor. Once in the Oval Office, however, the conservative Georgia Democrat spent much time soothing largely Republican businessmen, while seeming to slight all sorts of cherished labor goals. Reflecting on Carter's lack of concern for such labor pets as common situs picketing, which would have enabled a single union to shut down a construction site, AFL-CIO President George Meany groused that Carter's record on labor legislation was "a lot of talking but very little action." Last week, in a major effort...
Flight Talk. The phenomenon reflects both cold economics and some fevered concern about political and social malaise abroad. Canadians fret about increasing tensions between the French-and English-speaking communities. Middle Easterners are apprehensive about what they see as political and economic drift in the European countries, where they have traditionally salted away their wealth. Says Dr. Nazmi Abdel Hamid, former governor of Egypt's Central Bank and now an adviser to the Arab-European Bank: "Increasingly...
Item 3: Any habitually anxious air traveler can imagine the concern of the airline that requested a Boston-based stewardess to quit draping herself in ceremonial voodoo jewelry while working. Still, her religion so attached her to the artifacts that she resisted the request with a complaint to the Massachusetts commission against discrimination. Unfortunately, the issue she presented was left muddled: the airline compromised, permitting her to wear her voodoo jewelry with half sho"wing and the other half concealed. Questions: Is there not some limit to an individual's right to insist on private taste in dress while...