Word: concerns
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Officials said that concern for security prompted the request. "The more keys that are out, the more likelihood of theft or destruction," said Tom Hassan, senior advisor for Union dorms. He said he thinks a lot of the keys "pass through the hands of upperclassmen" who have obtained and then duplicated them...
...question Reagan's oft-repeated defense that the weapons transactions were meant to foster ties with moderate elements in the Iranian government. While the lawmakers said that the arms deals may have begun as a diplomatic overture, they added that the Administration was motivated primarily by a "deep personal concern on the part of the President for the welfare of U.S. hostages both in the early stages of the initiative and throughout the program." After the report was published, White House Spokesman Larry Speakes admitted that the operation "could be interpreted as a trade of arms for hostages," but that...
...loyally picked Kookaburra, 4-3. Ronald Reagan and Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke could not stay out of the guessing game. In a phone call two weeks ago, the President offered the PM a "proposition on a matter of importance and some common concern to the people of both our nations." He bet "my favorite cowboy hat" on the U.S. entry. Hawke responded by putting a wide-brimmed bush hat on the Kookaburra. Whoever wins, all hats will be off to the men of both teams. Then after a few weeks they can start revving up for the next...
FRANCE. The government has forecast growth of 2.8% this year, but Jean-Marie Chevalier, professor of economics at the University of Paris Nord, contends that it will be more like 2%. He cites soft consumer demand at home and still softer exports as causes for concern. Traditionally, some 30% of French exports go to the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries and other developing nations where lower oil revenues and large debt loads have sharply curtailed purchasing power. As a result, France's export earnings are bound to suffer. Sluggish growth may nudge up unemployment from 10.6% to 11% this year...
Second, it insults the employers of these people by implying that they are the moral equivalent of slaveowners. Would Grossman prefer it if, out of concern for the dignity of these "slaves" and her own troubled conscience, they were fired from their jobs and left to fend for themselves? Or, better yet, that the illegal aliens among them be shipped back to Mexico where there is greater equality of misery...