Word: concerns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...emigres gave various reasons for their departure, ranging from simple homesickness to plaintive criticisms of American society. Some complained of intense competition and difficulty making ends meet. Others cited a paralyzing fear of crime, while at least one woman expressed concern that her teenage daughter might start using drugs if she stayed in America. In the Soviet Union, she reasoned, her daughter would be safe...
...including Health & Fitness (1985), Food (1984), Computers (1982) and Design (1981). The department will be overseen by Assistant Managing Editor John Elson, who has edited the Nation, World, Essay and Religion sections during his 30-year career at TIME. "When ethics is the heart of a matter of public concern, the story will run in this section," he explains. "But Ethics will never be a platform for any one point of view." The section will draw on editors, writers and reporter-researchers knowledgeable in law, religion, medicine, education and other appropriate areas...
...tried to create a corporate organization for his enterprises. It did not work. "We were thinking of corporate organizational structures, operating capital and bottom-line earnings," says MacLeod. "He's thinking more in % terms of people, relationships, alliances." Khashoggi is not an administrator. Instincts guide him; details do not concern him, and he leaves them to his aides...
Some of the deals went bad. One of his first failures was a planned $600 million tourist resort that was shot down by the Egyptian legislature because of concern about damage to the nearby pyramids. Sudan's President Numeiry invited Khashoggi to become a virtual economic czar in his country. He set up a joint venture with the government to exploit oil resources. When Numeiry was deposed in a coup in April 1985, the new government accused Khashoggi of having interfered in the country's political and economic affairs. He is now unwelcome there...
...major cases of fraud at the Medical School have prompted concern, though Tosteson does not cite them in his letter. The first came in 1981, when an associate professor in a laboratory at the Brigham and Women's Hospital, John R. Darsee, admitted to fabricating data. An investigation resulted in the retraction of a series of reported findings in scientific journals. The recent disclosure of misconduct by a post-doctoral fellow in the laboratory of Ellis Reinherz at the Harvard-affiliated Dana-Farber Cancer Institute has lent a kind of scientific confirmation to the occurrence of fraud at Harvard...