Word: concerning
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Autocrats seldom go quietly, and Boris Yeltsin is no exception. With his term of office scheduled to end next year, the Russian president has deliberately plunged his country into a new bout of political and economic turmoil, driven by a single objective. "Yeltsin's only concern is, and always has been, his own power," says TIME Moscow correspondent Yuri Zarakhovich. "He's prepared to hold onto power even if that means bringing catastrophe upon his country...
Many students interviewed last night said they were still unsatisfied with Murphy's reply, expressing concern that he had not addressed the majority of their concerns...
...protest, a visibly annoyed Premier Zhu received four delegates from the sect and reportedly demanded, "Who is your leader?" "We are all leaders," one replied. Zhu handed the group off to his Complaints Bureau for judgment on the issue of the group's official status and its other concern, the arrest of five members at an earlier regional demonstration...
...Titania, the fairy queen (Michelle Pfeiffer), is played with a certain sexy intensity. But the human lovers (who include Calista Flockhart as the comically obsessed Helena), muddled by the carelessness of Stanley Tucci's smug Puck with his love potions, don't achieve firm definition. Lacking the center of concern they might provide, this version of the play becomes a collection of well-loved scenes: dutiful but mostly unmagical...
...Combine concern over salmonella food poisoning, fear that the arsenal of antibiotics may be losing its potency, and positive research over the potential of a genetic solution -- and a study published on Friday in the journal Science was bound to catch attention. The work of researchers at the University of California at Santa Barbara, the study revealed that removing or inactivating a gene called DAM in a certain strain of salmonella disabled the bacteria?s ability to cause disease in mice. The altered bacteria also went on to act like a vaccine, apparently activating the mouse?s immune system...