Word: concerns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Johnson's chief concern, as a result, was how to respond ex post facto without renewing the Korean War and forcing the U.S. to open a second front on the Asian mainland...
...Johnson's mobilization order, as every U.S. call-up has invariably done, proved of immense concern to the Russians. Almost immediately, Tass was on the air denouncing it as "a threatening act." More significantly, the move was greeted with some concern by Kosygin and his entourage, who were in New Delhi for the 18th anniversary of India's independence. In the wake of the U.S. call-up, Kosygin let it be known that the Kremlin's top leadership is more interested in a settlement than its underlings had let on. Kosygin's aides even hinted that...
...Johnson appeared ready to bend with the prevailing breezes of caution and negativism. While the President pointedly avoided ringing the alarm bell after last summer's riots-or indeed doing much of anything at all-Gardner, always the most candid man in the Administration, eloquently voiced his own concern...
...cancel a mandatory cost-of-living pay hike for Danish workers, but when some of his extreme leftist partners deserted him in a test vote on the issue in the Folketing, he called for new elections. During the campaign, the anti-Socialist opposition shrewdly played on rising Danish concern over increased unemployment (which is at 2.7%, still low by Western standards), a drop in Danish exports, the higher bill for welfare programs and the general direction of what many Scandinavians call their "nanny state," which hovers over them from nursery...
...School to draw more heavily upon the skills of other departments within the university, then apply their combined knowledge to such issues as racial discrimination, aid to the poor and labor relations. Similarly, Stendahl feels that the Divinity School curriculum should reflect more of the church's concern with the eradication of social ills. By coincidence, Bok and Stendahl are good personal friends and have a common interest in things Swedish: Bok's wife is the daughter of Sweden's great sociologist, Gunnar Myrdal...