Word: concerns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with a vested interest in automobile-accident litigation fail to discard the "central myth" that auto accidents can be avoided and that recovery must be founded on fault. The lethal nature of motor vehicles and the sheer weight of their numbers render accidents inevitable, divesting them of purely private concern-the subject of litigation predicated on negligence...
...restrained approach, what might have been at least a mini-crisis-the collision of the U.S. destroyer Rowan and a Russian merchantman in the Sea of Japan, 95 miles off South Korea-was treated as if it were a two-car collision on Route 66 and stirred little concern...
While applauding the moral concern of the educational critics, Havighurst added that unwary readers of their widely publicized views "get little pieces of reality without seeing the whole complex reality." The baleful picture creates a public disillusionment, which in turn creates a defensiveness on the part of teachers, which in turn complicates solutions to the real problems of the city schools. What is needed, said Havighurst, is "a moratorium on purely negative criticism of the public schools...
...Federal Government was the only source of insurance for home loans, chiefly through the Federal Housing Administration. Today, seven private companies are successfully challenging that monopoly. The oldest and by far the largest, Milwaukee-based Mortgage Guaranty Insurance Corp., has not only grown into a thriving concern with $50 million of assets and $3.5 billion of insurance in force, but has also spread its operations into 46 states, the District of Columbia, Canada and Australia...
...costly war abroad, he is still doing quite well for an old guy. In a two-out-of-three-cheers mood, Heren defends the basics of U.S. foreign policy by pointing out that "great powers have always accepted the necessity to intervene." While reminding Americans that their concern reaches from "the moon and stars down to the gutters of the slums," he adds that of no nation has it been possible to ask so much...