PHILADELPHIA — Republican lawmakers aired sharp concerns about their party's quick push to repeal the Affordable Care Act at a closed-door meeting Thursday, according to a recording of the session obtained by The Washington Post.
Mr. Specter said Judge Alito's views might have changed as the Supreme Court affirmed such rights several times since 1985 and the decisions became "embedded deep in the culture of the country". Still, he added, "the plot thickens every day". Two other Republican senators who support abortion rights, Olympia J. Snowe and Susan Collins, both of Maine, expressed sharp concerns about the statement.
The specter of global terrorism might well have changed the perception of prisoner exchanges in the U.S. The 2014 deal by Obama to secure the release of soldier Bowe Bergdahl for the eventual release of five senior Taliban figures from Guantanamo sparked sharp concerns about national security and whether Obama hewed to the four-decade-old U.S. policy of not negotiating with terrorist groups.
Gregori N. Perepelitsa, director of the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Kiev, said already sharp concern in the West about Russia's mounting influence in former Soviet states may have tipped the I.M.F.'s board members, mostly drawn from Western governments, to signal approval for the loan in spite of the deficits.
Secretary Powell and his staff noted the sharp concerns reported by American ambassadors in Arab states about potential unrest.
The decision throws into legal limbo one of the most ambitious undertakings in Google's history, and it brings into sharp focus concerns about the company's growing power over information.
A Gallup poll released this week showed a sharp spike in concern about how Facebook handles its users' privacy.
Yet for black Democratic politicians and donors, that optimism exists alongside a sharp feeling of concern about the 2018 elections, and a pervasive awareness that the end of Mr. Obama's presidency has left their community's political power at a low ebb.
But we've also seen a sharp decline in concern about AIDS.
Analysts and strategists attributed yesterday's sharp rise to fading concern about higher interest rates and a better-than-expected earnings report from Yahoo issued after the exchanges closed on Tuesday.
What politician doesn't these days profess concern about the sharp elbows of American capitalism?
