Word: concerning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Havana University was saturated then, even more than today, with politics. Among the students I met it seemed that their central concern at the University was politics; studies were only incidental. One of the sponsoring organizations of Operacion Amistad, the Federacion Estudiantil Universidad (F.E.U.) has always played a significant political role in Cuba. In fact the F.E.U. held the balance of power in some of the Provisional governments after the fall of hated dictator Gerardo Machado...
Dunlop expressed the same concern, declaring that the Taft-Hartley machinery was ineffective in encouraging settlement because it eliminates the "uncertainty" necessary for bargaining and because the machinery does not provide for the government board to make recommendations. As a result, negotiations are carried on in a vacuum. He pointed out that in the airline and railroad industries, emergency boards do make recommendations in labor disputes...
...Blue Cross. With rising hospital costs and a corresponding need to raise premiums sicklying o'er the healthy hue of resolution, most Blue Cross plans have responded to inflation by restricting benefits rather than extending them. And this loss of "pioneering spirit" has become a matter of concern to prominent Blue Cross and voluntary hospital officials...
...years ago an issue of local and limited concern came before the Harvard community in the form of the Memorial Church 'Controversy.' Both student body and faculty responded with dedicated fervor and concrete action. This year an issue of national and nearly unlimited concern has come before this community in the form of the attachment of a disclaimer affidavit and a loyalty oath to the NDEA funds. Harvard's response to this issue has been marked by its lack of fervor and action. That this apparent anomaly should exist suggests a reproachable peculiarity of the Harvard community and a breach...
Reuther: Freedom is everybody's business. You are always expressing a concern for the workers of Asia. There is a thing called international labor solidarity. When I was in Russia, I was a member of a union, and it was what we would call a company union...