Word: concerns
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...focus of the club's concern is money lent to Third World countries not by private banks but by governments themselves. The main work of the club is "rescheduling," a euphemism for delaying portions of government-to- government debt that is one or two years in arrears, usually with the proviso that current obligations be met. The club's membership list includes such predictable names as the U.S., Britain, France and Japan, all well-known international lenders. But the club also includes some Third World debtors, like Brazil (foreign debt: $110 billion), that have nonetheless managed to lend money...
Bork was the leading contender for the court seat from the first moments after Powell resigned. His name headed separate wish lists drawn up by both Attorney General Edwin Meese, who wanted a conservative in his own mold, and White House Chief of Staff Howard Baker, whose chief concern was to avoid an all-out war over confirmation. Though the combined list the men prepared for the President contained a dozen names, at a Monday-afternoon meeting with Reagan, Baker spoke for himself and Meese when he told the President, "Bork is a cut above all the rest...
...Thornburgh's first concern is fulfillinghis mandate to engineer a new emphasis onelectoral politics at Harvard. Because he does nothave any direct influence on courses or professorsat the K-School, Thornburgh's first moves will bemade through the the traditional functions of theIOP...
Others believe societal benefits from rigorous screening and tracing outweigh the invasion of some individuals' privacy. Sometimes a "concern for civil liberties has led us astray," argues Ethicist Ronald Bayer of the Hastings Center think tank, who is a strong advocate of contact notification. "Obviously this is no panacea; the case is strongest where the level of infection is still quite low. But it seems to me that the right to know is also a civil right...
Like a man running out of time, Mikhail Gorbachev did not dwell on niceties. Instead, he faced the 307-member Central Committee of the Communist Party and cut straight to the heart of his concern: the Soviet Union's bureaucracy- burdened economy. With characteristic candor, the Soviet leader faulted his predecessors for entrenching a system that promoted inefficiency, hampered industrial growth and destroyed national morale. Only "radical reform," he insisted, could put the economy back on its feet. In a challenge to his conservative critics, Gorbachev declared, "The possibilities of socialism . . . will be judged precisely by the progress and results...