Word: concerning
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...What ties the broad range of research work that's done here together is that every individual pursues scholarship and pure research for its own sake, and follows his own research interests," said Georgia Widden, public affairs officer for the institute. "There isn't any concern whatsoever for applications. No one is ever asked what is going to be the practical effect of their work...
...been interesting over the years. First grade: People attribute my success with the alphabet to "lots of practice." Second grade: My teacher expresses concern. People wonder if I get less time on tests because I spend so long writing my name. I assure them that my academics have not suffered as a result of my surname. I do, however, learn that if I want my name to fit in the upper right hand corner of a piece of notebook paper, I should start in the middle of the page, not four-fifths over to the right, where everyone else does...
...their other major concerns is that large blocking groups insulate students from the ideals of randomization by reducing their motivation to get involved in House community beyond the confines of the blocking group. And while we understand the College and various masters' concern that students in large blocking groups neglect to take as active a role in House-specific activities as students from smaller groups, we feel that such integration is the burden of the House themselves and not of the students. Last week's announcement should not prompt the College to limit student liberty by curbing blocking group size...
...Richard DeColibus, president of the Cleveland teachers' union. "But no one takes any notice of it because it goes against their preconceived notions that private schools teach better." The fact that the Indiana study didn't give second thoughts to voucher supporters is proof, he says, that their foremost concern is not children, but promoting a conservative education agenda. "Why would they want to expand a system that is demonstrably a failure?" DeColibus asks. "Because it's about ideology...
Hayes, 54, didn't set out to be an environmentalist. He grew up in Camas, Wash., a small paper-mill town where the air stank from sulfur fumes. Like most other people there, he loved the outdoor life, but his concern over the damage the mills were doing to his beloved forest was tempered by the realization that the industry was also his dad's employer. Not until his undergraduate days at Stanford in the '60s did he become a rabble rouser, and then his target was not pollution but war: he helped lead more than 1,000 students...