Word: concernedly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...amusing paradox is the concern among Chicano students, a la the newly rich, with their news media and public image and their own stereotyping of themselves into roles of the oppressed. Yes, yes: Oppression! Repression! Fascism! Racism! I thought I'd left that behind in the Sixties and early Seventies...
...ashore, fouling beaches and causing massive ecological damage. The spill has already driven hundreds of sea birds ashore, bedraggled and helpless. The oil could also threaten humpback whales, which migrate through the affected area, and imperil the already endangered gray seals that winter off Nantucket. But of greatest concern is the threat to the Massachusetts fishing industry, which employs some 30,000 men and has been slowly coming back after a long period of economic depression. "We fear damage will be long-lasting and pervasive," said Governor Michael Dukakis in a letter requesting federal aid for his state's fishermen...
Short-Term Concern. A few liberal economists are worried that there may be slightly too much good news. More smidgens of improvement between now and Inauguration Day may cause Jimmy Carter to trim the program of tax cuts and Government spending increases, possibly resulting in a smaller boost for the economy than they think it needs. Carter told reporters last week that the economy looks better to him than it did a month ago, but left his plans vague...
...squandering of a national asset. Grumped one Cabinet member in private: "It's like selling the paintings off the wall." What prompted all this indignation was the government's proposal last month to sell a substantial share of its stake in British Petroleum Co., the nation's largest industrial concern...
...Actor James Daly), he makes the predictable grumpy noises about women's lib. Yet?surprise?he ends up not merely respecting her but more than a little in love with her. As he looks around for clues to the munitions robbery and extortion plot that are his major concern, Harry shows a gift for talking to militant blacks, if only because they respect his rough, straight-forward machismo. Indeed, it turns out that while the entire liberal establishment believes the robbery is the work of political extremists. Harry, your wise street pro, knows the criminals are using revolutionary rhetoric merely...