Word: concerning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fact, the Gates-Cheney skepticism about Gorbachev's prospects have more support in the White House than either the President or the Secretary of State can let on publicly. And according to Western intelligence, Gorbachev's security detail has been beefed up recently, possibly out of a growing concern for his safety...
...Another concern is that agencies may be getting too big to manage. Fast- growing and profitable Saatchi & Saatchi stunned Wall Street two months ago with the news that for 1989 its earnings will decline for the first time in 19 years. Sorrell insists that he will encounter no such obstacles. But first he will have to win the fight for Ogilvy, which is likely to seek higher bidders. Among Sorrell's possible rivals for Ogilvy: Japan's Dentsu and the U.S. firms Interpublic and Young & Rubicam. Sorrell may not be the only ad mogul who still thinks that bigger...
...fact remains that the majority of young American Samoans leave the island within a year of graduation, often to return disenchanted with both the mainland and their island homeland. And alcoholism is a perennial concern in a country where beer sometimes seems as much in abundance as water. In the cricket-chattering dusk, John Kneubuhl, a grand old man of the island, who went from here to Yale and then to a screenwriting career in Hollywood, recalls how he used to play hide-and-seek in the ghost-filled dark as a boy. Now, he says, traditions are fading...
...make sure that its robust carriers do not get too strong for the consumer's good? Transportation Secretary Samuel Skinner, who generally believes deregulation has had good results, has nonetheless expressed concern about the growing concentration of power. "I am very sympathetic to people traveling out of certain markets who feel that they don't have options," he told TIME...
...principal's attack came just months after another administrator, Assistant Principal Warren Ferzocco, died of cancer in December. The two illnesses have sparked great concern at the school...