Word: concerns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...U.S.S.R.'s arms-reduction offer presented last week in Geneva. There is finally a Soviet proposal. There has not been one for a long time, and so I think that is encouraging. But a great concern that I always had is that when you start out with an asymmetrical situation and you propose equal reductions, it still leaves the gap. Our proposals were sharp reductions that brought us down to parity. I do not think this Soviet proposal would do that. The other thing that I think is of concern is the composition of it. They would count everything...
Another change resulted from concern that the first draft ignored the legitimate feelings of middle-class citizens who resent having part of their earnings transferred to the poor through taxes and social spending. The revised letter contains new passages noting that "many working people and middle-class Americans live dangerously close to poverty." The bishops made it clear that they do not seek a radical redistribution of income from the middle class to the poor. Instead, they primarily advocate higher taxes on the wealthy...
...Every few months, it seems, there is another frightening bulletin. First the EPA found the soil and water around the factory laced with arsenic, DDT and chlordane, among other contaminants. The most pressing concern was the danger to drinking water. Three town wells had been adjacent to Baird & McGuire; the last one was closed only in 1982. Running by the factory is the Cochato River, which for years flowed to Holbrook's water supply. But in 1983 the river was sluiced away from drinking water, and the most intensely contaminated ground near the factory covered with a clay...
...willing to bend to accommodate South Africa's disenfranchised black majority. Calling for "cooperative coexistence," he proposed a confederation of geographic and ethnic "units," with each racial group having responsibility for its "own affairs," including education, social welfare and residential areas. On matters of "mutual concern," meaning economic, defense and foreign policy, political structures would be created to permit discussion "without the one group having the right to dominate the others." To those familiar with the serpentine convolutions of Afrikaner rhetoric, the message seemed plain: racial groups should keep to themselves on matters relating to their own welfare...
...lids. It is a delicate undertaking, and pigment can inadvertently be put into hair follicles rather than under the skin. Another worry is that the pigment may migrate into the lymphatic system. J. Earl Rathbun, an ophthalmologist at the University of California, San Francisco, has a more mundane concern: "Making sure people know what they want and where they want it, because once it's put in, it's permanent." In short, no one should go into the operation with her eyes closed...