Word: concerns
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...circumstance, I could probably muster up enough energy to do almost anything I've ever done one more time. If it's there, I will." While not exactly set up, the best moves are prepared for, like the corporate and charitable ventures that have been Erving's off-season concern and will soon be his life. "I know everything will be different, but it should be. I've been gradually preparing myself. The athletic cycle doesn't have to be a vicious circle if you exercise some controls, sacrifice as much as you can for as long as you should...
Actions like Eisert's are a comment on how the council misperceives its responsibilities and role in the community. The revelation of Eisert's new affiliation at the council meeting last Sunday was met with a complete lack of concern. As the sole elected, representative body of Harvard undergraduates, the council, and especially its leader, have an obligation to take an unambiguous stance against both the substance and symbols of anachronistic and offensive attitudes like sexism and elitism. At stake is the character of the Harvard community...
Bane said she plans to teach two courses in the spring and to continue her research on the effects of welfare. She said one of her courses will concern welfare policy and the other will concern how to best implement such policy...
...debate on cost-containment thus shades inexorably into a debate on health care quality. But, it is a debate with more heat than light. Central to the continuing confusion and concern is the lack of any standardized methods in health care to measure the quality of performance of the health care system, or even a component of the system, such as a hospital. With the new marketplace--now purchaser-dominant, not professional-dominant--the demand for systematic information on quality has outgrown the state of the art for measuring quality...
...publication of hospital-specific mortality rates has provoked both interest and alarm. Hospital representatives faced with such potentially inflammatory hard numbers express concern that the consumer may not be able at all to tell the differences between a bad hospital (with high death rates due to poor care) and a good one (with high death rates due to very complex patient cases). The daylight of data has starkly shown the poverty of measurement methods...