Word: concernedly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...deadline on the sale of Lance's stock has been weighing more and more heavily on him. As news coverage of Lance's troubles increased, the President showed signs of growing concern. He asked Atlanta Attorney Charles Kirbo. 60, his longtime confidant, to fly to Washington, for example, and Carter does not call on Kirbo for advice on routine matters...
Plainly worried about the future of détente were America's European allies, and even some U.S. Soviet specialists. West Germany's Schmidt is bringing Carter a message of concern informally agreed to by the leaders of all nine Common Market countries; they are urging Carter to moderate his grapeshot approach to human rights...
...message is clear: the aging Kremlin leadership is not prepared to relinquish its influence over the Communist parties in the West, however successful the tactics of those avowedly independent Marxists may be (see following story). But Moscow's deepest concern is probably the possible reverberations that Eurocommunism, if allowed to develop unchecked, might have among the captive regimes of Eastern Europe. If seductive ideas about an independent Communism were allowed to take root there, they would not only threaten Moscow's determination to maintain itself as the Rome of international Communism. They would also threaten the East-West...
...recent article in the Moscow Literary Gazette called for wide distribution of books on etiquette. It observed that in the U.S. and other countries, young members of "bourgeois" society "polish their manners carefully in the family and at elite universities," but in the Soviet Union, the traditional Russian concern for good form "was broken after the Revolution. Polite conventions were disdained as pretentious when vests, hats and ties became petit bourgeois. " Result: "Abroad, some of us are grossly ignorant of internationally accepted standards of etiquette...
...most hotly debated proposals concern the public education system. If Lévesque has his way, all new residents of Quebec must send their children to French-language schools, unless at least one parent attended English-language elementary school in the province. The rationale: nine out of ten non-French-speaking immigrants to Quebec now choose English-language schooling for their children-a trend that threatens the long-term survival of French as the province's principal language...