Word: concerns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...public comment on how she felt about the mistakes that led to the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, which killed her husband, Navy Commander Michael Smith, and six other astronauts. Only after release of the harsh conclusions of the Rogers commission did she criticize the "incredibly terrible judgments, shockingly sparse concern for human life . . . and some very bewildering thought processes" by NASA officials. Last week her feelings became even clearer. It was learned that she had filed a suit seeking $15.1 million from the space agency, specifically naming Lawrence Mulloy, who was then chief of the faulty solid-rocket-booster program...
...Administration was under pressure to act as national concern about drugs seemed to be reaching new heights. "Crack," the powerful form of coke that can be purchased for as little as $10 and is smoked in a glass pipe, is seducing younger Americans who could never afford the drug in its more expensive powdered form. One study reported that cocaine has spread to as many as one-third of America's college students. Since 1980, cocaine-related deaths have tripled. The deaths last month of University of Maryland Basketball Player Len Bias, 22, and Cleveland Browns Defensive Back Don Rogers...
...study, only one of these is truly disaster-proof: the modular high-temperature gas reactor, a prototype of which has already successfully been tested in West Germany. If anything goes wrong, says Lidsky, the MHTGR simply cools down, without releasing any radiation. "It eliminates the accident of greatest concern," agrees Alan Crane, senior associate at the Office of Technology Assessment and co-author of Nuclear Power in an Age of Uncertainty...
...example, must be approved by a special committee, which determines if the equipment could be manufactured in China. If it could, the import is not permitted. Tariffs can be equally tough: the levy on foreign autos is 230%. At the moment, China is strictly limiting imports because of concern about its trade deficit, which ballooned from $1.4 billion in 1984 to $13.7 billion last year. Moreover, Peking two weeks ago devalued its currency by 15.8% against the U.S. dollar. That could discourage imports by making them more expensive...
...reason for that relative lack of concern is that the new stock index futures markets, which may have helped trigger last week's selling, give institutional investors the opportunity to hedge against sudden losses. Said Arthur Randall, a broker with the E.F. Hutton investment house: "It takes much more than 80 points and two days to convince them that the party is over...