Word: concerns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although people like Zhang and Yu feel that the protest movement is indeed a positive sign of student concern over the political future of China, some at Harvard disagree...
...Yuwen '90, a 19 year-old from Shanghai, has similar doubts about the impartiality of American news. "The West has too much concern about the demonstrations themselves, and not full awareness of the possible consequences," he says...
...other hand, Li adds, some of the older students "have a good recollection of what happened during the Cultural Revolution. Those who have experienced it understand that the political enthusiasm and social concern of the masses can sometimes be used for vicious purposes...
...most severe critics of the air safety system are the airline pilots, who, it has often been noted, are the first to arrive at the scene of an air accident. A survey of ALPA's members in September showed not only that midair collisions are the pilots' biggest concern but that 66% of them feel that the problems of air-traffic control are more serious than the public realizes. In the opinion of 43% of pilots, deregulation has had an adverse effect on airline safety. Declares Pilot David Linsley, a 20-year veteran at United: "The system...
Still to be resolved are important questions about the system's reliability. Under FAA rules, TCAS II cannot be certified for all weather conditions unless it has less than a one-in-a-billion chance of failing. There is concern as well that the system is too excitable: in busy skies it could send out false alarms that could lead a pilot into dangerous and unnecessary maneuvers. Both the airline industry and the FAA think such nuisance alarms can be solved by fine-tuning TCAS II antennas...