Word: concernedly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jones moved to Rio to teach at the American school there. "Jim was no fanatic," said a woman who befriended him there. "He had no wild streak at all. They were just normal, rather naive and provincial Mid westerners. They led a simple life, and Jim's main concern was always for those people he saw suffering. He used to stop children in the street and talk to them, help them if he could...
...federal deficit because of increased welfare and unemployment payments and reduced tax revenues. But many groups believe federal spending reduction represents a much more immediate financial threat than recession, and they are already beginning to register protests. A group of black leaders sent an urgent message of "concern" to the White House warning that the new budget "may deeply and disproportionately affect the poor and minorities in the most hard-pressed urban and rural areas...
Says she: "My concern has been for people who are unable to provide for their own needs and who have been disadvantaged by this society." She does not see "any problems with the ability of the Secretary of HUD to administer the programs." As for her boss, she says: "I do not know what the President's final decision will be with the HUD programs. I do fight. I always do, of course...
Berenson expressed concern that people who are political independents could be disillusioned with the party because of actions, like the Republican Club's inviting Nixon, of campus organizations...
...President claimed credit for having already hired a lot of women: "More than 21% of my appointments within the White House and the Executive Branch have been women, an alltime high for any Administration." Beyond that, he stressed Administration concern for such first steps as passage of the Equal Rights Amendment, the enforcement of all civil rights laws and the development of improved statistical information concerning women. He asked Congress to pass a number of pending bills related to the Houston plan, but his message had little impact on a Congress already concerned with the ending of the session ("What...