Word: concerns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...simply could not sit there any longer, after having worked on this project for two years with state and local officials, and hear the false-hoods, half-truths and misrepresentations that the NRC staff was making about emergency planning. It was absolutely disgraceful. My concern was that we were reaching a decision point and that the commissioners ought to know that at least one public safety official from the common-wealth took exception with what they said," Agnes said...
...raised last week. "It was an impressive and important first step," says John Logsdon, director of George Washington University's Space Policy Institute. "But many of the problems that have been there are still there." Those problems are legion. For starters, the shuttle's complexity and NASA's heightened concern for safety lead many experts to doubt the agency's ability to hold to even its relatively modest schedule of 18 more flights between now and the end of 1990. Richard Truly, the agency's space-flight director, concedes that improvements can be made. "You can't have too much...
Before the Olympics began, people anticipated problems outside the Olympic Village. There was concern about terrorism and student protests. Thankfully, there was no terrorism and only mild student protests. But the taint of the new world--home of terrorism and other evils--did not escape the 1988 Games...
...administration of Harvard forgotten this value which we all, we thought, hold so important? Typically, those who assume to limit our basic civil liberties have offered reasons such as public health, national security, or domestic tranquility to convince us to accept their measures. The feeble reason the administration offers: concern about the Yard's appearance...
Please, folks, don't try to pawn off what must be a good business move as a surge of moral concern...