Word: concerningly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...operations that aren't quite so easy to categorize. To grow quickly and preserve market share, Mibanco is offering incentives to current customers to get friends to sign up. That's hardly insidious--as anyone with a gym membership can tell you--but it does flick at the concern that lenders might start driving demand. And now Mibanco is contemplating an ipo. "We have two objectives," says Llosa. "One of them is to have a social impact, but we also look to be profitable. If we decide to only have a social impact, we won't have resources to grow...
...Harvard’s administrative structure does not guarantee that undergraduates are left out of the calculus when important or symbolic decisions are made, but it explicitly empowers administrators to do so. The fact that Dean Smith, who has otherwise distinguished himself from his predecessors through his uncharacteristic concern for undergraduates, would have to be restrained by his underlings from evicting Harvard College from University Hall speaks volumes about the biases within the system, which place just about everyone else’s interests higher on the pecking order than undergraduates?...
...learned my prognosis, it became clear that grand elections would be the least of my concerns. I would need surgery, be home for six weeks, on crutches for three months, and—if all went well—I would be off a cane in five. Forget sculling on the Charles—my chief concern suddenly was being able to walk at Commencement...
...interview last week, Hyman described this as a major concern of the search group. “We’re also looking for someone who wants to be at a university and who will have new and compelling ideas about how to engage our greatest resource, which is our students, and a finite number of people want to do that,” he said...
...about once an Obama/Clinton team took office? One can argue about whether Hillary would be too independent and conspicuous, diminishing Obama’s authority. This is a legitimate concern, particularly with Bill Clinton lurking in the background, but I am not as worried as others that Hillary wouldn’t know how to play her role appropriately. She showed incredible discipline in fitting into her position in the Senate. As for Bill, while he might have been a weird presence in a Hillary presidency, why indication is there that he intrude any more into her Vice-Presidency than...