Word: concernedly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...talks began in Japan in 1973, explosive oil prices and recession have plagued many countries, and they have sought to protect their industries by raising all kinds of nontariff hurdles. Though world trade continued to expand, reaching an estimated $1.3 trillion last year, the rate of growth slowed, causing concern that the global economy would stagnate. Until about two years ago, when Robert Strauss arrived on the scene as the special U.S. representative, the trade talks were going nowhere. Strauss's closeness to President Carter gave him entree to top foreign leaders, and he used it, with McDonald...
...administration does not believe that it is a matter for our concern when our tuition dollars support racism and oppression in South Africa...
Bryant recalls the era of the Harvard strike in terms of a siege. There was "enormous concern for the physical security of the building," he says while he stands in his office, glancing about and noting, "This was general headquarters." Bryant spent nights and weekends camped out in Widener during the worst of the strike, joined by a small corps of concerned faculty members and a few members of the library staff. Ten years later, he attributes the incident "to an unbelievable lack of communication and understanding" between the faculty and students. While he says he did not oppose...
ANOTHER possible menace is to civil liberties. Is not the student being pried upon against his will? Privacy is indeed endangered in many areas of modern society and must be scrupulously protected, but concern for privacy cannot be absolute. Secrecy should also have its (narrowly-bounded) place. The point is the world of difference between telephone taps on an innocent individual and a professor assessing the suitablity of a student for CIA work on the basis of personal opinion and open observation. The latter hardly infringes any significant rights of privacy. The passing-on of the student's name without...
Idealistic as Harvard's guidelines may be they attest to faculty members' concern about the CIA's activities in the university. One hopes their concern will spread...