Word: concerns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...technology that gives them daunting new powers over life and death, are held in low esteem by many who see them as self-serving money chasers. Dr. Richard Kusserow, inspector general for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, claims that physicians' peer- review boards, out of concern for the profession's good name, tend to sweep ethics complaints under the rug. "They protect each other's incompetency from the public," he says...
...nation's reawakening concern with ethics puts a higher political premium than ever on personalities who can come across as trustworthy. Arizona Democrat Bruce Babbitt says he senses a "groping quality" among voters. "What people seem to be saying," adds Babbitt, "is 'This time around we want to have a direct feel for who the candidates are, how they make decisions, what their priorities are in their personal lives...
...called "global unilateralism." Whether by air strikes on Libya, withdrawals from international organizations, trade sanctions against Japan, or secret operations in the Middle East and Central America, we seem inclined to pursue our goals around the world with somewhat less attention to the interests of others, somewhat less concern for the reactions of our neighbors, and somewhat less determination to seek collective solutions to common problems...
...vastmachine but someone who must participate fully inhelping to shape America's role in the world.These are convictions that each of you must findwithin yourself. As we celebrate your departurefor the world outside, I hope that you wil profitfrom the example of Ted Hesburgh, profit fromNotre Dame's traditional concern for humanevalues, profit from the commitment many of youhave already shown to serving the community aroundyou and begin to take initiative andresponsibility on a larger international stage. Toparaphrase Martin Luther King: "In a world facingthe revolt of ragged and hungry masses; in a worldtorn between the tensions of East...
...tissue or may affect hormones metabolized by the liver or released from the pituitary gland. Said Robert Hiatt of the Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program in Oakland, who reported an alcohol-breast cancer link in 1984: "So far, this is an epidemiological finding that has been repeated, leading to concern. As yet, there is no linkup with biology." Indeed, even NCI's Greenwald conceded that alcohol may be less important than other risk factors...