Word: concerns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...added that, while Harvard had some concern that the bill might be abused by students, "there's a fair amount of discretion to prevents abuse" for the schools...
...causes vomiting, diarrhea and fever. While the search goes on for the exact source of the bug, Jewel has shut its suspect dairy and removed all its dairy products from its 217 outlets. Workers at several Chicago-area stores poured thousands of gallons of milk down storm sewers, creating concern that this might allow the bacteria to spread. Jewel cleaned up the potential contamination at a cost...
...Hollywood the star-studded Committee of Concern for Central America sponsors lectures and debates featuring such celebrities as Mike Farrell (M*A*S*H) and Robert Foxworth (Falcon Crest). When Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega Saavedra visited Los Angeles last fall, the group welcomed him with receptions and a Beverly Hills garden party. Oscar-winning Cinematographer Haskell Wexler, with the backing of fantasy-film Mogul George Lucas, this summer will release a dramatic movie that is critical of U.S. policy in Nicaragua. "Of course we know the political impact that a feature film on Central America will have," says Wexler. "That...
Nonetheless, the growing Soviet pressures are viewed with concern in Pakistan. Says a Western intelligence officer in Islamabad: "The Soviets have been telling the Pakistanis that the Soviet Union no longer wants to keep Soviet-Pakistani relations separate from the issue of Afghanistan. That, in effect, has torn up the tacit understanding that has existed between them." The understanding has been beneficial to Pakistan: since 1972 it has received an estimated $700 million in Soviet...
...familiar concern of this kind is that computers may erect barriers that will isolate students and divide teachers from learners. If students have to spend more time with their new machines, they may become more solitary and avoid the human contact that does so much to enrich the university experience. If it really takes 100 or 200 hours to prepare a good program suitable for an hour's instruction, professors may withdraw to develop software leaving students to work alone at their consoles. There is also a risk of overlooking subtler benefits that come from older, less "efficient" methods...