Word: concernedly
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...double standard in this case is hardly justified, but it is an easy route to follow, given the lack of evidence in Vance's record. Perhaps sensing the difficulty, Vance has sought to fill the informational void with a series of recent pronouncements concerning important foreign policy issues. Unfortunately, few of these statements suggest a clear direction for foreign policy under Vance. While Vance has indicated opposition to present levels of American arms sales, for instance, he has failed to specify which countries should no longer receive military hardware. Similarly, in his introductory press conference, Vance emphasized the importance...
...Management and Budget (TIME, Dec. 6). For all their sharp differences in background and style, Vance and Lance (reporters who had impatiently awaited the announcement cracked that the pair sounded like a vaudeville team) seemed to fit the emerging Administration's needs. They symbolized experience, directness, a concern for efficiency, but-so far at least-nothing to undermine confidence or shock conservatives...
Where Carter does face immediate testing is in the area of domestic economic policy. As unemployment climbed to 8.1%-the highest level since December 1975-and concern about the pause in the recovery persisted. Carter declared that "in all likelihood" he will seek some means of stimulating the economy shortly after he assumes office...
...Central Concern. Beyond these top-priority policy matters, the new Administration will address a wide range of economically related issues: arms sales, nuclear proliferation, energy, food, population control and the economic development of Africa, Asia and Latin America. According to Vance, these "clusters of issues" must become "a central concern of foreign-policy discussions in the U.S. and throughout the world...
Katz, who shortly after the election suggested that Massachusetts might not be the great wellspring of talent that it had been in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, said yesterday that the apparent lack of Massachusetts appointees has become a matter of public concern...