Word: concernedly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard Summer School officials express "grave concern" over the enrollment of only 21 people at the school. Ex-freshman dean and new Summer School director F. Skiddy von Stade Jr. '37 announces that he hopes to rescue the school with the addition of a rigorous program in polo. "I see this as a democratic program well suited to the school's populist tradition," von Stade explains...
...continuing concern about Carter stems from the growing realization that the basic character of the man who sits in the Oval Office is more important than his views on SALT talks or any other specific issue. The evidence about Carter is often perplexing...
...Model Cities program and the Office of Economic Opportunity. He also ran interference for Johnson in the 1966 creation of the Department of Transportation, a mammoth reorganization achieved in only eight months. One colleague recalls him, not entirely kindly, as "an empire builder who had a kind of abstract concern for the disadvantaged...
...Administration's main concern, of course, will be the U.S. economy. Another of its problems will be containing the inflation that might result from faster growth. Most members of the Board of Economists think that the danger of inflation comes largely from momentum: labor has become used to wage increases that reflect productivity improvements and rises in the cost of living, and businessmen want to pass along all cost increases to consumers...
...strange ailment that triggered the new concern is a disorder of the nervous system called GuÍllaÍn-Barré syndrome. Named for the French doctors who described it in 1916. it begins with paralysis in the legs and may gradually spread upward to the hands and arms and the rest of the body. Most people eventually recover (the death rate is 5%), but if the breathing muscles are seriously impaired, a respirator may be needed during the critical period. No one knows what causes the paralyzing nerve inflammation, though the syndrome seems to strike more often after...