Word: concerns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...movement has tapped two converging sentiments, one rooted in the early years of the civil rights movement and one rooted in an eighties concern for the free market and business ethics...
South Africa, with its pretentions to Western values and its close strategic alliance with the U.S. and Western Europe, has shown its deep concern for its credibility in the West. Clearly, the most effective way for the United States to force reform or any change in South Africa is to threaten and carry out removal of all political, corporate, and economic support for the system...
...regimes in the world, as bad in its own way as the Soviet Bloc, Libya and the U.S. backed dictatorships of Latin America. The evils of apartheid--the laws by which South Africa's white minority oppresses the country's 22 million Blacks and other non-whites--deserve the concern and-energy of all Americans...
...days of siege began last Thursday with students drifting in ones and twos into the library. To the security guards on duty in the four-story former U.S. embassy building, everything seemed normal. A block away, police officers showed no concern when some other well-dressed young people began to collect in a passageway under the City Hall Plaza. Then, without warning, the youths rushed up from the passageway and began racing toward the building, flinging rocks and bottles at startled policemen. Surging inside, they joined the students already in the second-floor library and announced that they were taking...
...board's concern for revenues led members to endorse the Administration proposal to end the deduction of state and local taxes from federal returns. While that politically loaded move would be particularly hard on residents of high-tax states such as New York and California (see chart), the impact would be limited to individuals who itemize their deductions. Board members pointed out that only a third of all taxpayers are itemizers. But the most compelling reason for eliminating the deduction, the economists said, is that to do so would raise revenue that is certainly needed. The Treasury Department estimates that...