Word: concerns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...While concern over computer security has garnered headlines in recent . weeks, veteran users tend to take the matter in stride. "There is no such thing as privacy on a computer," says Thomas Mandel, an analyst at SRI and a regular on several Silicon Valley computer networks. "The view here is that if you don't want something read, don't put it on the system...
Such nostrums aroused little enthusiasm outside the Great Hall of the People. Many Chinese, wearied by the violent eddies and reversals that continue to mark their country's political life, profess scant interest in matters of state. "These things don't concern me," said a taxi driver in Tiananmen Square, where red banners flew in honor of the People's Congress. Concurred a septuagenarian scholar: "I really don't listen to this sort of thing any more." And a Peking intellectual added his own apolitical perspective: "My friends and I just gather together to eat and drink and make...
...wants to be certain the two sides also achieve parity on shorter-range nuclear missiles. Chirac is expected to renew France's commitment to the campaign against international terrorism, a gesture that is certain to be well received in Iranscam-shaken Washington. Chirac is also sure to voice Paris' concern over the rising tide of U.S. protectionism (see interview...
...people came to smell the roses. Montgomery, whose 13-acre concern has a $4.6 million annual billing, said $900,000 of it comes from contacts made at the flower show. He was one of 53 major exhibitors. Their flora took up six acres under the roof of the Philadelphia Civic Center. Montgomery is as good as anyone at giving a primer on the mercantile side of the matter...
Here and there, Rushdie does note a few flaws in the revolutionary state. His most vexing concern is that a government of writers -- both President Daniel Ortega and his wife have published verse, while Vice President Sergio Ramirez produces fiction -- has also become a government of censors. Nor does he flinch from recording the naivete of teenage soldiers eager for battle. Yet such imperfections are not enough to prevent him from rooting for what he regards as a brave Nicaraguan David up against the North American Goliath. "Were these dictators in the making?" he asks of his ostentatious hosts...