Word: concerns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most candidates agree that these issues are of universal concern and do not serve to differentiate the candidates...
Part of his argument rests on a deep concern about "intergenerational equity." There are "better ways to spend money than indefinitely extending life," he charges. Long treatment of the elderly drains funds from the health needs of other groups and from urgent social problems. He also has withering views about many of the non-ill elderly: the "young-old" who deny age and indulge an "it's-my-turn" attitude. Their lives, says Callahan crustily, would gain meaning "if instead of taking a cruise, they work for a cause...
...increasing number of students attracted to the church has drawn concern from administrators and clergy at several schools in the Boston-area, who are stepping up their efforts to stem proselytizing on their campuses...
Improving Harvard's science curriculum has also become a recently voiced concern of Dean for Undergraduate Education David Pilbeam. The fact that a large number of undergraduates who enter Harvard planning to concentrate in the sciences end up switching their majors has heightened this concern, he said...
Legitimate concerns of national security aside, Washington and Cambridge should not forget that the overarching concern of information policies should be the preservation of First Amendment rights. More than economic progress, our health as a society depends on free speech and academic freedom. If the Reagan Administration continues its short-sighted attempt to stop the free flow of information under the guise of national security, the result may well be a more stagnant, uncompetitive--and thus a less secure--America...