Word: concerns
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Some members are trying to open up the election process so that any undergraduate could try to become a member. "A big concern among members is how to make [the Signet] less elitist than it is now," says Cardwell, a Kirkland House resident...
...that the U.S. was seriously considering a military strike, put all his comments on a what-if basis. As a result, they said, they got no impression that an attack had already been ordered, much less that it was within days or even hours of beginning. Added to their concern about being caught in the middle of a cycle of military reprisal and terrorist vengeance was a resentful feeling that the U.S. had failed to consult them properly, and perhaps had even misled them...
...also have been reluctant to become involved in any military action that it did not initiate and could not control. Another factor: the newly installed Chirac government had just renewed efforts to win freedom for eight French hostages in Lebanon and did not want to endanger them--a concern that was justified by the subsequent execution of British and American hostages...
...East Berlin last week, Honecker's speech to his party congress could have been written by Gorbachev, who listened attentively. The concerns were the same: greater emphasis on high technology, more worker initiative and increased concern for consumers. Hundreds of signs plastered around East Berlin extolled the virtues of quality and efficiency. Even though Gorbachev is not pushing the older leaders out of power, age and illness suggest that change in any of the countries, with the exception of Poland, could come soon and suddenly. In the meantime, the Soviet chief is pressuring local parties to rejuvenate the middle ranks...
While other colleges generally are holding down tenured positions and trimming new appointments to meet crunching costs, DePauw's primary faculty concern seems to be how many people to add: trustees will consider a faculty committee's recommendations to add ten to twelve spots to a full-time tenure staff that now numbers 146. Other DePauw dollars are going into undergraduate centers that combine learning with professional training. Best known is the Center for Management and Entrepreneurship, which attracted Student John Curran, among others, to DePauw. Curran, 22, has completed a six-month ( internship with Eli Lilly & Co. in Indianapolis...