Word: concerning
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...There is certainly a concern among the management of the clubs that they not be a place for students to party. They are for members, not for guests," Sears said...
Nothing seems to dominate modern American politics like our economic interests, and among our most important is our energy policy. It was largely concern over the flow of Middle Eastern oil which prompted the United States to stand up to Saddam Hussein in the Gulf War and has guided our policy with regard to Iraq ever since. Our efforts have kept gas prices in the US phenomenally low. But, while all may appear well for the country, our laissez-faire energy policy continues to lead to problems domestically and abroad which should be addressed...
Friends and colleagues describe Leontief as an academic free thinker. When students took over University Hall in 1969, Leontief sided with a younger group of professors who sympathized with students' concern. He also challenged the teaching situation at the University, saying that teachers spent too much time theorizing and less time gathering facts, which should constitute the meat of their work...
...barrage of anti-209 student protesters Carnesale suddenly faced at UCLA had little concern for his job safety or adherence to a popularly passed law. In their eyes, Carnesale was their servant, accountable above all else to undergraduate sentiment. If Carnesale would not disobey the law, protesters reasoned, perhaps he could be urged to issue public statements, as his predecessor had, criticizing 209 as harmful to the rich ethnic and racial diversity of UCLA. Despite a student takeover of the main administrative building and raging protests in campus quads, however, Carnesale refused to buckle...
...USTR spokesman Jay Ziegler, referring to Lindner's political connections. "But the fact is, the banana dispute has evolved into a crucial test" of the enforceability of rulings by the World Trade Organization, which, to no avail, ordered the E.U. to drop its banana restrictions by Jan. 1. Rising concern about the U.S. trade deficit--up 50% in 1998 and expected to rise as much as 80% in 1999--has critics clamoring. Last month Senate majority leader Trent Lott, in a letter to President Clinton, warned, "If the Administration will not take action to protect trade agreements, Congress will have...