Word: concerns
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...University cites "financial, environmental, and academic concerns" motivating its decision to relocate the collection. These are not only justifications for the plan, but also precisely the concerns the University must keep in mind when carrying it out. Cramming another entire collection into the Fogg makes financial sense, but betrays the environmental concern. Likewise, spending $10 million on a new wing solves the problem of space; but the money might be better used to finance the much-needed office space for professors. In juggling these concerns, the financial pitfall would be to alienate the benefactors who have made possible the growth...
...spite of the Reagan Administration's concern about talkative federal employees, the frequency of leaks from Government officials to the press has not changed much since the early 1960s. That is the conclusion of a survey by Harvard University Lecturer Martin Linsky, who found that a fairly consistent 42% of White House officials and members of Congress say they have given confidential information to reporters over the years...
That kind of fast-as-light trading has made immediate information a vital concern. On his morning drive to his office in Manhattan's midtown General ! Motors Building, Howard Stein, chairman of the $35 billion Dreyfus group of mutual funds, stays in minute-by-minute touch with price moves of 72 selected stocks on a QuoTrex sideband FM receiver. The QuoTrex system uses the Security Industry Association's computerized data base, to which all U.S. exchanges report via the Intermarket Trading System...
...scour the world for stock bargains. One who has been roundly rewarded at that game is Peter Lynch, the aggressive manager of the wildly successful Fidelity Magellan Fund (assets: $7 billion), which last year notched up 43.1% growth. Lynch is widely known for his willingness to pick a foreign concern as an investment as readily as a domestic firm. He casts afield to West Germany, the Netherlands and even Finland for his choices...
...mounting concern was evident in Washington, where officials hastened to quash any hopes Enrile might entertain of U.S. backing in his apparent bid for power. "U.S. support for President Aquino's government is complete and unequivocal," said State Department Spokesman Charles Redman. Another Administration official dismissed suggestions that Enrile might be the next President. "Enrile is just not a plausible successor," he snapped. "He's tainted by two decades of serving Marcos...