Word: concernedly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...small part of the article is of deep concern to me, however. It perpetuates the myth about the cost of the volunteer force. In fact, the active-duty military personnel share of the Defense Department budget has gone down from 31% to 27% since the end of the draft. Retirement, civilian personnel costs and other nonvolunteer force-related costs have gone up, but these increases are not tied to the end of the draft...
Moscow was enraged by a White House report earlier this month that took Communist countries to task for a whole series of violations of the Helsinki provisions on human rights. Defending President Carter's active concern with the subject, the report argued that "interest in human rights does not constitute interference in the internal affairs of other states." In retaliation, the Kremlin denounced the new Administration and Carter personally in the strongest terms yet, stepped up a press campaign to expose human rights abuses (some real, some fancied) in the West, and undertook a new crackdown on human rights...
...with the murder on April 4,1968, of the nation's most celebrated civil rights leader. Much of that renewed speculation came from Black Leaders Ralph Abernathy and Jesse Jackson and members of the House Select Committee on Assassinations. Said Louis Stokes, chairman of the committee: "My real concern is whether Ray was lured into this escape and, if so, whether for the purpose of killing him to stop him from talking...
...today, litigation is steadily becoming more complicated, more pervasive, more time consuming and more expensive. That fact is clear enough to any ordinary citizen with a tax problem or a difficult divorce, and no one has expressed more concern about it than Chief Justice Warren Burger. His warning: "We may be well on our way to a society overrun by hordes of lawyers, hungry as locusts, and brigades of judges in numbers never before contemplated." The warning is somewhat exaggerated, but some major American cases do indeed keep expanding until they become ends in themselves, seemingly capable of lasting forever...
...understand that you cooked my breast with microwaves?" the woman angrily asked Dr. Norman Sadowsky, chief radiologist at Boston's Faulkner Hospital. Sadowsky reassured her that he had not. Yet her concern is typical of the initial response to the hospital's breast-cancer detection program. To help in the all-important early discovery of a disease that has reached epidemic levels in the U.S. (90,000 cases a year), Faulkner radiologists are using microwaves to spot breast cancers...