Word: concerns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most recent response to evidence that the work involved in creating microchips can lead to miscarriages. Other semiconductor manufacturers, such as Intel, National Semiconductor, Texas Instruments and Advanced Micro Devices, already encourage mothers-to-be to remove themselves from microchip production areas. The latest round of corporate concern originated with Digital Equipment, the computer-manufacturing firm, where a number of women production workers suffered miscarriages over the past five years. Digital commissioned a study of the problem by Harris Pastides and Edward Calabrese of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst's division of public health. The two investigated a group...
...indeed it is the worrisome basis for his defense of himself from any Iranscam culpability. But even if his poor concentration is no worse than it has been for years, the problems it has recently caused and the sense of drift that has emerged make it a matter of concern once more and a point of attack for critics who no longer consider Reagan unassailable. As he approaches his 76th birthday on Feb. 6, while recuperating from prostate surgery, an old question is once again being raised in Washington: Has the President wandered so far out of touch that...
Like most people, highly placed public servants yearn for fatter paychecks. Unlike most people, some of those public servants -- namely, Congressmen -- are in a position to vote raises for themselves. Or cuts. In the Depression year of 1932, a politically prudent concern for seemliness prompted Congress to slash its salaries 10%. That is not likely to happen in 1987. But as members of the 100th Congress weigh the very real financial needs of officials in all branches of Government, including themselves, they are painfully aware of how public sentiment is running. During a call-in poll last month, ABC television...
...between 1951 and 1954, only three cases of cheating were reported--and that prompted concern at the highest levels of the all-women's school...
...Concern about the honor code's effectiveness ultimately prompted a student-faculty committe to examine the system in 1954, says Radcliffe's archivist, Jeanne Knowles. The committee concluded that "...in the academic sphere, the honor system is ineffectual as a guide to conduct at the present time...