Word: concerns
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Members of the Undergraduate Council began writing the report last fall in response to student concern that the University's tenure process overlooks the teaching ability of candidates for lifetime posts...
...There has been quite a bit of concern over this particular issue [divestment]. There was a very strong base of support for the petition among the students," said first-year Med School student Matthew R. Anderson, a member of the Health and Human Rights Group (HHRG), the committee which organized and presented the petition...
These are not novel disclosures. To some, these developments are encouraging; after all, a disarming first strike capability, according to escalation dominance theorists, will translate into concrete political advantages. There is little need for concern, these neo-hawks hasten to add, because the U.S. will not actually exercise this capacity...
...diversion of funds became public, Casey and Poindexter briefed congressional intelligence committees but "did not fully relate the nature of events as they had occurred." This produced an "understandable perception," said the board all too softly, "that they were not forthcoming." More ominously, the board also expressed its concern that notes presumably made by Poindexter, the official notetaker at key NSC meetings, "appear to be missing...
...more immediate concern to most households is the level of consumer installment and mortgage debt, which has ballooned from $1.2 trillion in 1980 to $2.2 trillion now. In the past three years consumer debt grew some 40%, while personal disposable income climbed only 22%. About 15 million U.S. households now pay more than 50% of their total disposable income to service their debt, according to Greenspan. Such payments, he noted, are not a problem unless income suddenly contracts, as it might when layoffs occur during recession. In such a crisis, stricken families can lose their houses, cars and other vital...