Word: fears
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Environmental groups look at still another bottom line. They fear that the life patterns of fish, birds and other wild animals may be permanently altered by winter navigation, damaging an already precarious ecological balance. When the ice is broken and heat trapped in the water below is released, so the argument goes, the life cycles of various fish may be affected. Just this January an environmental group in New York State called Save the River helped derail a similar navigation study projected for the St. Lawrence Seaway. For Captain Hall, the irony of his role as a public servant helping...
...assessment of this adventure lies on down the road, perhaps months away, as has been the case with most of the President's international initiatives. The record is not encouraging. Dramatic moments too often were revealed in hindsight to have been hastily prepared. Some people fear that an Israeli-Egyptian treaty could isolate Sadat in the Arab world, deepen hostility to the U. S. and ultimately create grave threats to our oil imports. Carter hears these doubts-or does he? The increasingly personal nature of his leadership sometimes seems to be a protective device destined to give him room...
...course of the recent elections of the Student Assembly and its officers several people have expressed the fear that their opinions and arguments will not be taken seriously due to the seeming success of the Coalition for a Democratic University in those elections. That fear is completely unfounded. Not only does the CDU lack the will or power to take control of the Assembly but its organization reflects the opposite motive--that is, the stimulation of increased active student motivation in the student association...
...class. I enjoy writing though I wouldn't say it's a skill that comes easily to me and I credit Mrs. Thomson's fine ability as a concerned teacher for successfully pushing me towards my limits as a writer. The present situation dismays me and I fear comes down to a clash of personalities rather than a solution to legitimate deficiencies in Expos. I hope possibility remains for a reversal of Mr. Marius's decision to cancel Expository writing 13 and lose as fine a teacher as Mrs. Thomson. Michael T. Cohen...
...until the end, believes that the system will work and that nuclear power is completely safe) he likes the character and admires him because of his heroic act that ends the film. Both Fonda and Lemmon say that the point of the film is that ordinary people, who fear for their jobs, who normally don't give much thought to politics, are capable of extraordinary action when they see something terribly wrong. As Lemmon said of his character, "No Caesar he--he was the average man, who behaved instinctively and morally unto himself when the circumstances demanded...