"An absence of public statements does not mean an absence of concern and engagement on these issues," the official said.
"There's an absence of concern about ease of use and almost a pride in technical complexity," he said.
It also found a relative absence of concern about climate change and environmental risk amongst business leaders.
THE absence of concern is all the more alarming now, given the enormous shortfalls in Social Security and Medicare that await in coming decades, economists say.
The absence of concern in the financial markets, however, has the perverse result of making it harder to persuade some Congressmen that going to the brink of default – or even defaulting on one or more interest payments – could have serious consequences.
In the absence of concern for Palestinian lives, talk of one-state or two-states is empty.
(African American, Group 1) Six of the women (6/32; 19 % of participants) described an absence of concern about risks associated with anal intercourse, at least at the time the women were engaging in the act and described three main factors that contributed to a lack of concern about risk: being on drugs, trusting their partner, and being in the heat of the moment.
The risk of developing ovarian cancer increases with age, yet poor knowledge and absence of concern about ovarian cancer may mean that symptoms experienced by older women are attributed to other causes such as the menopause or ageing process, rather than recognised as a potential threat to health.
Weight control concerns and behaviors were based on YES-or-NO answers to questions assessing the presence or absence of the concerns or behaviors of weight control.
Nonetheless, in this as in every other case involving U.S. corporate interests, the U.S. government would probably not have resorted to intervention in the absence of other concerns.
The FDA may allow such labels, even in the absence of safety concerns, if the claims on the labels can be verified.
