Word: concur
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...concur with you that this is an important issue, but I would like to call to your attention that there are a multitude of other issues which deserve equal discussion," Walsh's reply reads. Among the other issues Walsh cited were taxes, the fiscal difficulties of the Cambridge Hospital and the recent cuts in state aid to the city...
...willingness to shoulder the party's disgrace did not disguise it. If Japanese analysts could not agree last week on the potential consequences of the voter backlash, they did concur on the causes of the L.D.P. rout. The vote amounted to a referendum on the party's arrogant and scandal-tainted performance in recent months. The downslide began with a bribery and influence-peddling scandal that forced the resignation of Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita last April. The L.D.P. further alienated voters, especially women, by imposing a controversial 3% consumption tax. In agreeing to liberalize agricultural imports, the party angered farmers...
...article on a recent Undergraduate Council Services committee meeting, I was reported to have said that all "ROTC students are economically disadvantaged." In fact, this view was expressed by someone else at the meeting, and is a blanket statement with which I cannot concur. Certainly, there are students in ROTC who cannot afford to attend Harvard without scholarships the program provides them. It was to help these students, some of whom receive smaller scholarships than they otherwise could and undergo great hardships as a result, as well as those who cannot afford to attend Harvard...
Mills would concur. As a freshman, Mills was touted as being the nation's best 18-year-old soccer player. Now, he battles daily with a knee injury...
Other child-development experts concur with Norton's findings. Many poor children, they note, are mystified by the "time-slotted" school environment, where crayons are often taken away before the picture is finished because it is juice time. Says clinical psychologist Jeree Pawl, director of the Infant- Parent Program at San Francisco General Hospital: "The structured situation makes them feel powerless. It feels arbitrary, senseless and imposed because at home there is no predictability and rigidity." Confused youngsters may withdraw or rebel, prompting some teachers to peg these children as troublemakers or slow learners...