Word: concerns
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...Concern about relationships between government intelligence agencies and scholars prompted the University to issue a set of guidelines on the subject in 1977. The guidelines permit professors to do work for the CIA and other intelligence agencies, but require them to report all such arrangements to the University administration...
...involved and to the public. When the CIA is a sponsor, taking this step is mandatory under the Intelligence Agency Guidelines and, under accepted academic standards, it is essential for the protection of scholars who place their trust in us. The Middle Eastern Studies Association has expressed deep concern about this failure, focusing quite properly on the importance of full disclosure of research support, especially in cases where others are involved as participants. Fortunately, the conference did not take place before the source of funding was disclosed. Nevertheless, scholars have expressed to me their concern that it might have...
...revolution. Disagreeing with Karl Marx, he does not think religion is necessarily the opiate of the people. That depends, says Castro, on whether it is used to defend the rich. He sees great promise in Latin American Catholicism's shift from a traditional alliance with "oppressors" to greater concern for the poor. Says he: "There are 10,000 more coincidences between Christianity and Communism than there could be with capitalism." Liberation theology, he exults, is "a re-encounter of Christianity with its roots, with its most beautiful, heroic and most glorious history." He also calls it "one of the most...
...graver concern, he insisted, was the U.S. challenge. "There is only one pressure," he said. "That is the military, political and economic pressure of the United States." The Nicaraguan people, he added, "see the U.S.-sponsored counterrevolution destroy the schools, health centers, cooperatives. This causes people to commit themselves more readily to the patriotic military service." The "so-called Third World countries," he continued, must also worry. "If the U.S. invades Nicaragua," he said, "then this endangers the security of all developing countries...
Institutional investors are also big gainers. Some 80% of trading on the stock market is done by institutions. Their major concern is to get the highest possible return on investments, and a quick corporate takeover is often the way. Institutions are often eager to sell out to arbitragers for large profits once a merger fight begins. To such investors, notes one veteran Wall Street watcher, "a corporation is no longer a company, it's just a deal...