Word: concerns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Nugan and Michael Hand founded the banking house in Sydney, Austrailia. By the time of Nugan's death seven years later, the concern was responsible for more than $1 billion and had opened offices in Hong Kong, the Cayman Islands, the Philippines, Hawaii, Panama, Saudi Arabia and Thailand. Customers included the United States Government, Wing On Bank, and the Bank of Austrlia-New Zealand...
...policeman. Clearly on the defensive, the officer insists that he is not forbidding the street musician to play but only questioning why he is cadging coins. "Times have changed," the angry music fan counters. "The police should not be sticking their noses into matters that don't concern them." The Moscow cop walks away grumbling, "Right now, anything goes...
...Wall Street to upbraid the worst of the speculators. Then just to gig them a bit more, refer in conversations to capitalists who are "too damned greedy." Make it stated policy that the job of the Government is to keep up the quality of American life and that concern will first be focused on the underprivileged, education, housing, conservation...
...other issues: ways to incorporate the laity more fully into church life; whether Catholic politicians are bound to apply church teaching to society; and the role of lay activist movements, conservative and liberal. Some observers believe synod discussions have become less spontaneous, partly because of John Paul's concern that the bishops maintain a united front with him on doctrine and discipline, and partly because he sits in on most sessions. On the other hand, it may simply be that the diversity of national interests and viewpoints among the prelates makes strong policy recommendations increasingly difficult to forge...
Little steps, like the New York City plan, are signs that officials are concerned about helping the mentally ill. The ambitious programs coursing their way through state legislatures to fund more care facilities are even bigger steps. But until concern for solving the problem permeates each neighborhood, each business and each government as deeply as does the illness itself, there will be little progress...