Word: concerns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Those of you coming back from spring break with glorious tans may have some cause for concern, according to a Harvard Medical School research team...
TIME's continuing concern about events in Nicaragua is reflected once again in this week's cover stories on the controversy over U.S. aid to the contra rebels fighting the Marxist-leaning Sandinista regime. That interest prompted the magazine to station a full-time correspondent in Managua, Nicaragua's capital, more than half a year ago to maintain a firsthand perspective on the country's policies and problems...
...matter the nature of Nicaragua's government, both writer and correspondent are impressed with the Nicaraguan people, who are enduring great adversity without necessarily understanding the causes, and steeling themselves for an outcome that is largely beyond their control. Smolowe's and Lopez's informed concern, and TIME's, is revealed in their story...
...Such concern is overdrawn. Despite the Challenger calamity, American experts say, in many respects the U.S. space program is still ahead of its Soviet counterpart. Nonetheless, Moscow has racked up a number of major achievements in space over the past 2 1/2 years. Among them: a record 237-day manned flight by three cosmonauts aboard the Salyut 7 space station, a daring repair mission to restart that station after a near total power failure, and a highly sophisticated radar mapping of Venus by two robot Venera probes. Earlier this month the Soviets dazzled the international scientific community with their Vega...
...tide may be turning. Consumers seem to be developing a healthy concern about the debts they have amassed, and are at last restraining their spending. The Department of Commerce last week reported that the economy grew at an anemic .7% rate during the final quarter of last year, a marked decline from the Government's earlier estimate of 1.3%. For the year, the economy expanded at a respectable but far from robust rate...