Word: concernedly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...There is a bumper sticker in the middle of the rear window of the Fairmont--"Paul Tsongas, U.S. Senate." In the car is Cecil Andrus, former governor of Idaho and current Secretary of the Interior, who has come to Massachusetts to endorse Tsongas. They have traded compliments about their concern for energy and the environment. Tsongas' driver is doing a steady 75. "As a member of the Select Ad-Hoc Committee on Energy, [Paul] introduced two successful amendments to the National Energy Act requiring conservation studies to reduce gas consumption...
...that they have some power, or the naivete of the black voters who intend to support a man who, for most of his public career, considered them a political pariah. If the blacks in South Carolina truly seek justice, let them begin by distinguishing, on election day, between true concern and absolute cynicism...
Under law the children's protective, or child defender, service is part of the welfare department of Massachusetts. And like similar services elsewhere in the U.S. the state's child defender force has lately been expanded and given a larger budget, partly because public concern about battered children has grown dramatically, along with increases in reported abuses. In the state of Massachusetts the subject now seems particularly urgent because of recent cases, especially that of an eleven-year-old Braintree girl whose father sued to get her back from a state-run shelter where she had been placed...
...group in the Arab world has monitored the Egyptian-Israeli peace talks with more intensity and concern than the 1,139,000 Palestinians who live on the West Bank and in Gaza. That intensity increased last week with word that the Israeli Cabinet intended to "thicken" (augment) the settlements of Israeli nationals in their midst. The news added a further twist to the Palestinian debate over the Camp David accords, which has been almost as tortuous as the negotiation process itself...
...city's retail stores have done unexpectedly well. Of more concern to New York's cultural role is the strike's damage to first novels, unheralded plays, art openings and musical debuts, all dependent on favorable attention...