— New York Yankees manager Joe Girardi, after being asked if he was concerned for the Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez, who may be suspended from Major League Baseball for allegedly using performance-enhancing drugs.
14), about a City Council bill intended to protect patients and staff from harassment by anti-abortion activists who gather outside clinics that perform abortions: The people who participate in these demonstrations are concerned for, first, the life of the unborn baby and, second, the emotional effect of abortion for the mother.
During Eisenhower's second term, race became a central national concern for the first time since Reconstruction.
The threat of storm is not a concern for the first two days of the convention, which will be held indoors here at the Time Warner Cable Arena.
As dawn breaks, Mr. Yoshida expresses concern for the first time that the pools where used fuel rods are stored are also heating up.
American companies have invested comparatively little in the Middle East, largely because the area's state-run oil companies are only now mulling partnerships with foreign oil concerns for the first time in decades.
That House budget was a halfhearted attempt to assuage those concerns; for the first time, the Republican leadership went beyond generalities about cutting spending to a list of specific cuts.
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J., Oct. 5 - One day after the Nets' marquee player, Jason Kidd, publicly voiced his concerns for the first time about the direction of the franchise after the team's off-season fire sale, Rod Thorn, the Nets' chief executive, kept to the company line in a telephone interview.
As passengers are robbed by taxi-drivers, householders are shot in their homes by burglars, even the education minister gets mugged, crime now heads the list of public concerns, for the first time since 1983.Inevitably, the politicians are rushing to be seen to be doing something.
