Word: concernedly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite her middle-class manner and accent, Thatcher in fact is a grocer's daughter from a market town in Lincolnshire. Her campaign strategy was designed in part to impress working-class voters, especially women, that she shared their concern about prices and other gut economic issues. At a shopping mall in Halifax, she brandished in her right hand a shopping bag crammed full of groceries, while in her left hand she held a half-empty one. "The right hand," she trilled, "was what a pound would buy under the Tory government in 1974; the other is what...
Space of all kinds seems to be a matter of some concern. "We're like three people in an elevator," Terre says. "We learn to keep out of each other...
Burger's sleuthing struck some court watchers as consistent with his deep concern about press coverage of the court. "He intensely dislikes the press," says Georgetown University Law Professor Dennis Hutchinson, a former Supreme Court law clerk. "He is convinced that the way he runs things is right, but when put in a critical light it unnerves him." ABC's O'Brien, 35, a lawyer who worked as a television reporter in New Orleans before joining the network two years ago, may have scored an unmistakable coup in revealing the two decisions, but some journalists wondered whether...
...potentially destabilizing nuclear weapons. We negotiate arms limitations in Europe, yet build up U.S. forces in NATO. We state that new precision-guided, highly accurate technologies are "revolutionizing" the battlefield, yet request funding for increasingly vulnerable, cost-ineffective weapon platforms such as aircraft carriers. And the federal government voices concern over inflation, yet expands spending in a sector which is one of the most inflationary. In short, military spending and force deployments are increasingly in conflict with stated federal policy objectives and military strategies...
THIS CHAOTIC approach has plagued those outside the government as well. As the authors note, "What has been lacking is a coherent alternative to the unchanging stance of the Pentagon. Public concern with military matters has been confined to individual weapons or foreign bases or bizarre instances of waste. The B-1 bomber becomes a cause, while the cruise missile gets built. The neutron bomb grabs the public attention, while outmoded long-range bombers are deployed. "The broad links from major military forces to policy goals, on the one hand, and to alternative levels of military spending, on the other...