GMAT Sentence Correction (SC) | Re: The disaster agency revealed to the press the power of the

'Fear of' is a misfit in the contest primarily because it may wrongly mean that the Agency itself was frightened by the survivors' welfare, or the Agency merely repeated the survivors' fears about their own welfare rather than bringing out the agency's concern about the survivors' welfare. On the contrary, 'fear for' brings out the intended meaning forthrightly.

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