Word: concerns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...having to forego a summer vacation is different from having to forsake a college degree, and it remains minority student enrollments that concern officials. According to nationally published figures, both the Black and Hispanic student populations have proportionally declined in the last 10 years...
...respectable is not necessarily the healthy. It is bad enough that Hart's personal life has captured our attention in the way that it has. It is far worse that nothing else can concern us in the same way. Richard Secord's joking reminder to the committee investigating the Iran-Contra scandal that at least he was not on Bimini is a sad indication of our citizenry's misplaced priorities. It reminds us that most Americans would prefer a president who supports the endless murder of the innocent to a president who commits adultery...
...Tocqueville warned the world that Americans were in danger of becoming too preoccupied with their personal affairs at the expense of commitment to civil and political causes. The Hart scandal presents a cruel twist on Tocqueville's prescient forecast. It seems now that the only political issues that concern us are those that relate to our personal lives. If it can't happen to us, if we don't see it on the daytime soaps, then it simply doesn't matter. We truly have reached a sad state of affairs when we adopt so narrow a world-view...
...Barbie and Verges, who will certainly try to show that even the Resistance was not blameless? That Jean Moulin, a leader of the Resistance who died under the hands of Barbie, was betrayed by his own comrades? In a different domain and on another level, there is some concern that the trial will conveniently and simplistically group the various victims together -- dump them all into the same file: Jews and Resistance fighters, Jews and anti-Nazis, Jews and political prisoners. In other words, that the specific, the unique, even ontological aspect of the Jewish tragedy will be lost...
Puzzled Americans watched with concern four years ago as hundreds of thousands of West Europeans protested the deployment of the U.S. intermediate- range missiles that the allied governments had requested. Now, with the U.S. and the Soviet Union inching closer to an arms deal that would remove both American and Soviet missiles from Europe, some allies are upset by the development. Last week Kenneth Adelman, the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency director, summed up American exasperation with Europe's apparent inconsistency. Said Adelman in an interview with the West German weekly Stern: "We have a perception that they complain...