Word: concerns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Several articles in The Crimson of late have shown an unfortunately big-money attitude riding high at our dear, beloved alma mater. Harvard, it seems, isn't winning the research grant sweepstakes in the Boston area; this could be a potential cause for concern. After all, the more research money available at an institution, the more attractive it is to prospective faculty members. Why can't the prestige of Fair Harvard pull down the big bucks? Mavbe they should try playing the Lottery, or go on TV game shows--after all, those researchers must be wicked smart. Just imagine them...
Elizabeth A. Pratt '86, one of those risking arrest, said that "by resisting the government they will have to pay more attention to my concern and outrage. They can ignore me if I'm outside, if they have to arrest me they have to notice...
...concern is that low prices have erased the profit margins of many U.S. producers, forcing them to shut down their wells. While Persian Gulf countries can pump oil for less than $5 per bbl., many U.S. wells cost $12 or more per bbl. to operate because much of the easily accessible crude has already been tapped. Some oil analysts believe that one goal of the Saudi price-war strategy is to bankrupt many of these high-cost producers, wipe out the glut and then boost prices once again when the competition is gone. Most forecasters think that oil prices below...
...week Ohio-based Standard Oil said that it will spend only about $450 million this year looking for crude, a 50% cut from 1985. The cutbacks affect not only the U.S., but also the allies from which it buys oil. In Britain's offshore fields, observes Petroleum Intelligence Weekly, "concern is starting to center on a spending slowdown that could leave the North Sea industry ill equipped to pick up again...
Porterfield's case hardly suffices as a rallying cry to storm the barriers of discrimination. As Chicago Tribune Columnist Mike Royko put it, "I might understand PUSH's concern for Porterfield if he had been flung out of the station door and forced to cadge quarters on a street corner . . . (but) he hasn't exactly become a member of America's underclass...