Word: concerns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Recent issues of concern for the group have included a civilian review board for the Cambridge Police Department, in the wake of charges of racial discrimination by the force, and the perennial problems of Cambridge's tight housing market...
...does believe that the issues in South Africa are of tremendous concern. And he believes they deserve serious consideration and debate. Perhaps Bok is sick of debating divestment; perhaps he is tired of the issue. He has made up his mind, and Harris has made up his. Neither is going to change the other...
While some argue that revolution is inevitable in South Africa, others respond with admirable humanitarian concern that the world must do its best to bring about peaceful change. Unfortunately, the hope for peaceful change in South Africa is based on a fundamental misunderstanding of the situation in that country and inevitably supports the unconscionable status...
...which understands fiction's obligation to define values and render discriminations and judgments. This she does in clear, astringent prose, even though the London Dorns seem oddly disconnected and unaffected by events leading up to and including World War II. Where, for example, is the Blitz, the shortages, the concern for relations left behind on the Continent? At their hotel in Bordighera, Frederick and his wife welcome soldiers under any flag who are willing to trade food for the inn's good wines...
Still, there are a few signs of fresh concern that reach beyond the Ivy League, with its high entry standards and prohibition against athletic scholarships. On Oct. 2 a panel of university presidents from the National Collegiate Athletic Association unanimously recommended a modified version of a measure called Proposal 48. The rule, scheduled to take effect in August 1986, would require freshman athletes at the major sports schools to enter with SATs of 700 and a grade-point average of 2.0 in real courses. The presidents' commission is seeking to amend the standard to allow a player with grades over...