Word: concerning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Your goals, Mr. President, have either been vague--a "kinder, gentler nation"--or hypocritical. You declared your concern for education and for the environment, but your budget proposal allots just I percent of the budget for education, the environment, drug abuse programs and relief for the homeless...
...liberal victim, possibly Hu's successor, Party General Secretary Zhao Ziyang. But a Western diplomat in Beijing disagreed, suggesting that the era of fall-guy politics has ended. Said he: "Can they let another guy go down the tubes, given the growing cynicism of the Chinese people, the concern for human rights outside the country and their need for more foreign investment...
Some things have also changed for the worse. Several alumni expressed concern about the shrinking number of Harvard students from who come from lower-income Black families and attributed alterations in the Harvard Black community to this shift...
...trends have emerged that threaten the fundamental proposition of diversity as Harvard perceives it, especially over the long term. For every group besides Asian-Americans, admissions rates remain below national representation levels. Meanwhile, leaders of all student groups express concern that as competition increases among minority applicants, economic diversity among the students will decline...
...debate surrounding the Undergraduate Council's decision to reinstitute ROTC, it was the opponents of ROTC who were characterized as elitist and excluding. One Eliot House sophomore complained about the "militarization of the lower classes" and the offenses to "patriotic people." A Dunster House senior expressed his concern for "the lower classes of American society" who would have "a lot of very serious problems" encountering homosexuals in their platoon...