Word: concernedly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...population seems willing to give Carter a chance. This was reflected in the annual Chicago Daily News poll of what most worries its readers. Crime ranked first, followed by high food prices, job security and the quality of public schools. To the credit of Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter, concern about the presidency has dropped to 19th, down from tenth just two years...
...concern about the incoming staff, Jordan insists that the new breed in the White House will conduct a quiet revolution. The emphasis is on the word quiet. "Before we start tearing things apart," he says, "we're going to see what really needs to be torn apart...
...state of war to a state of peace; namely, a document ending the state of belligerency. This document is a peace document. All efforts for peace, including the Geneva Conference, are taking place within the framework of the U.N. and under the aegis of the two superpowers. Our concern is to achieve peace, and the document to be signed should be a peace document. To make it clearer: we are either in a state of war or in a state of peace...
Indeed, many tanker accidents are the result of human error, and there is real reason for concern over the uneven experience and training of tanker captains and crews (see box). What to do? The usual complaint is that worldwide shipping is so diffuse that effective regulation is impossible. As Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Warren Magnuson put it last week: "I don't see how you can have control when you have American-owned ships insured by the British, run by the Greeks, with Italian officers and a Chinese crew...
...ships in foreign ports by jacking up tugboat fees or other nuisance gestures. Says a Washington maritime lawyer: "The risk of retaliation is not a trivial one. It is always a dangerous risk to tighten procedures." But increasingly, Washington will have to balance that risk against the rising public concern in the U.S. about the environmental hazard posed by the ever more numerous tankers plying U.S. waters...