Word: concerns
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...liquor industry has kept a low profile, though there is some concern over "neo-prohibitionism" and the return of the old image of demon rum. "For most people, alcohol is something that makes life a little bit more pleasant," says Robert Beleson, president of Remy Martin Amerique. The distillers and brewers have taken no position at all on the raising of the minimum drinking age or attempts to limit hours of taverns and liquor stores. The Distilled Spirits Council of the United States has stepped up its ads counseling moderation, and still voluntarily keeps liquor commercials off television. Says Duncan...
...general, the Report demonstration an increased awareness of graduate students as people. In its concern about young graduate students who may need a more supportive environment and in its recognition that older students not be treated as their parents children (e.g, in submitting parental financial data). The Committee demonstrates the degree to which it investigated students interests. Suzanne Amador Irene kacandes Mark Postman David spergel (Subcommittee of Graduate Student Council to the Strauch Committee...
...when the University is considering taking disciplinary action against students involved in two recent anti-apartheid protests, the CRR's re-assemblance is no less controversial. The University, for its part, has demonstrated a lack of concern for student participation by of the committee so soon after the two recent incidents, leaving students almost no time to reach a consensus on continuing the boycott. Yet such refusal by students to join would be unwise, unpragmatic, and pointless...
...drastic response to a flagging market. Citing continuing declines in petroleum prices, Atlantic Richfield, the sixth largest U.S. oil firm, last week unveiled a sweeping reorganization program. The Los Angeles-based concern (1984 sales: $25 billion) announced that it will shed all its refining and marketing operations east of the Mississippi, including 1,100 gas stations. The company also intends to pare down spending on exploration by 50% and abandon its copper and molybdenum businesses. More dramatically, ARCO's board of directors voted to increase significantly the firm's long-term borrowing. As a result, total indebtedness could reach more...
...large population at Ibnet, the danger of disease was considered especially acute. The government's encouragement of planting before the seasonal rains also made sense, at least in principle. "If these people are going to harvest in the next few months," said Father Jack Finucane, the field director of Concern, an Irish relief agency, who visited Ibnet last week, "this is the time they should go back home. There is very little hope for them in the camp...