Word: concerns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That assertion served to break the ice with several black leaders, including Boesak. But the diplomat has also established a wide network of contacts among ordinary blacks during unpublicized visits to squatter camps and churches throughout the country. "After a while we were struck by his obvious concern for South Africa's blacks," says Dr. Nthato Motlana, chairman of the Civic Association in the black township of Soweto. "And we realized that he had lived through the kind of trauma that we're going through...
...That problem is too much `loose' money and too little concern in Washington about ethics in government," Seymour said in a statement referring to "vast sums of money" spent by corporations and foreign governments "to buy influence and favors...
Brokaw was neither stooge nor combatant. His tactic was to ask sharp, tight questions but rarely argue back. His concern, he says, was not to "showboat" himself and not to let Gorbachev filibuster with windy answers, though there was no way to stop him, says Brokaw, "short of reaching over and grabbing him by the tie, which I almost did." Gorbachev is unabashable, as seasoned politicians come to be, but as a salesman and defender of Communism, he was nowhere. He was more convincing on the question of how much he wants, and perhaps needs, to reduce the arms race...
...concern is a common one in Japan. Says Johsen Takahashi, chief economist of the Mitsubishi Research Institute: "We have a strong feeling that we have to take care of ourselves. The pension system, while greatly improved in recent years, is still not trusted. Many Japanese fear that a change in government or severe inflation would sweep away their future...
...Naderite concern for protecting consumers from poor values that first inspired Parker to write about wines. The son of a Baltimore-based oil- company executive, he grew up in a family of moderate drinkers who rarely touched wine. In 1967 Parker briefly dropped out of the University of Maryland to visit his high school sweetheart (now his wife Patricia) while she was spending her college junior year in France. Fascinated by the taste and variety of wines he encountered, Parker back home bought every book he could find on the subject. A hobby inexorably became an obsession; soon...