Word: concerns
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...concern about the American economy which is re-emerging is not whether it will run sideways for years the way that the Japanese economy did; it is whether the US GDP and employment will continue to tumble and go on looking for a bottom for several months...
...dearth of options. Yet, instead of expanding painting offerings in the curriculum, Harvard is allowing beloved painting instructor Mitchnick to depart as soon as her visiting lecturer contract expires. In a recent Crimson article on the future of the VES painting program, both VES concentrators and department members expressed concern that this development marks a trend of the department’s shifting emphasis in a conceptual direction—essentially moving from art practice to art theory. Such a shift away from technical skills education is troubling given that practicing art is integral to thinking about art. A comprehensive...
...since the election have been to first- and second-time gun purchasers, many nervous that this may be their last chance. "Thus far, the Obama Administration has done what they set out to do," says Joe Keffer, who owns a shop in New Holland, Pa. "And therein lies the concern." (Read "The Future of Gun Control...
Your job as peace envoy got a lot tougher after the recent Israeli offensive in Gaza and a new right-wing government in Israel ... There's a lot of cynicism and concern about what the new [Israeli] government means here - and obviously a lot of despair after what happened in Gaza. But we have no option but to pick ourselves up from here. What happens in these next couple of months will really be critical. We need three elements: a credible political negotiation for a two-state solution; a program of major change on the West Bank, and an easing...
...While that number isn't staggering - UNAIDS estimates that 33 million people are living with HIV worldwide - the potential for things to get worse is alarming. As the world's most populous nation, the upswing in the epidemic is of great concern, Schwartländer says. While HIV/AIDS became a visible public health issue in much of the developed world more than 20 years ago, China did not put real resouces into fighting the disease until 2003. Confronted by the UN's so-called 2002 "Titanic" report, which said China faced an AIDS epidemic of "proportions beyond belief" and compared...