Word: concernedly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...were many variations on the theme. New Hampshire Attorney John Ahlgren advertised "free legal services for people hit by falling pieces of Skylab" outside his Portsmouth office. But he saw a serious side to the event too. "People feel at the mercy of forces they cannot control," he explained. "Concern is mild, but it's there." An ad hoc Spokane, Wash., group called the Skylab Self-Defense Society hung a 15-ft. bull's-eye on the side of a downtown office building and suggested, "Make Spokane the target for Skylab's landing. If you give the Government a target...
Questions about profits lead to questions about size. The spread of newspaper chains and one-newspaper cities is, to be sure, a cause for concern. Yet smallness as such is not necessarily good: it guarantees neither quality nor independence. Bigness as such is not necessarily bad: in most cases, large resources improve a publication. Nor does the size of some enterprises keep new publications out. The number of small publications is growing and their diversity is dazzling. The really remarkable phenomenon of recent years is not so much the growth of communications companies, but the spread of highly organized special...
...other referendum questions concern city investment in South Africa, nuclear power, and the future of Harvard Square...
...first aerial clash between Syria and Israel in five years, and it had frightening overtones; similar clashes preceded the start of the 1967 and 1973 Arab-Israeli wars. The U.S. expressed its "serious concern" to Jerusalem over the use of the sophisticated F-15s, which were given to Israel with the proviso that they be used for defensive purposes only. Premier Menachem Begin rejected the protest, arguing that the aerial attacks on suspected terrorist positions were "only done for the sake of legitimate national defense...
...Supreme Court's majority opinion, written by Justice William Brennan, conceded that the lower courts' rulings had followed the letter of the 1964 law, but insisted that they were not within its spirit. The primary concern of Congress was with "the plight of the Negro in our economy," Brennan wrote. It would be "ironic indeed," he said, if Title VII was used to prohibit "all voluntary, private, race-conscious efforts to abolish traditional patterns" of discrimination...