Word: concerning
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Harvard responds in the filing that the professors' letters do not indicate that McArthur took a stand on the case. The response says that it shows only McArthur's "concern" in Jackson's tenure bid, which Harvard says the dean has never disputed...
...their constant enthusiasm for change, Americans have long been the butt of the rest of the world's jokes for embracing the latest nostrums and potions, from patent medicines to vitamin E. But in recent years, argues , Barsky, Americans have taken their concern for good health to extremes, fretting about every random ache and pain. Over the past 15 years, he reports, polls show people are complaining more about symptoms of illness; those who say they are satisfied with their health dropped from 61% in the 1970s to 55% in the mid-1980s. Americans seem to be on the verge...
...Money, has tried for years to make a film of The Last Temptation. Paramount had planned to produce it in 1983 but backed away, fearing pressure from Fundamentalists. When Universal undertook the project, it hired born-again Marketers Tim Penland and the Rev. Larry Poland to help allay concern about the film among their fellow conservative Christians. The pair marked 80 out of 120 script pages where they thought dialogue or action would be unacceptable, then resigned, they say, after concluding that Universal would not respond to their objections and had used them only to head off protests...
J.F.K. had pondered the Vice President question very little as the Los Angeles convention approached. His consuming concern was to win a first-ballot nomination. He flew to New York City's Idlewild Airport on Friday night. He and Jackie had a suite in the nearby International Hotel. It was a strange evening. There were only a few reporters around and virtually no Kennedy aides or security people...
...prolonged weightlessness, calcium loss in bones and muscle atrophy, can be largely prevented by exercise. A strict regimen on a treadmill helped keep Romanenko's muscle tone and reduced the calcium loss to a degree that Ushakov calls insignificant. But other effects attributed to weightlessness are still cause for concern. "There is a general weakening of the immune system in a long-duration flight," Ushakov says. "When this happens, there is a danger that every microorganism present in the ship can cause infection...