Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Such strictures protect the right of a client to seek legal help in his own way and out of his own needs. But in a counsel-conscious age, the system may be a trifle obsolete. One effect of U.S.affluence for example, is that millions of new property owners need legal aid to buy, sell and bequeath. Yet, by all reports, many Americans go on shunning lawyers, either because they fear high fees or have no idea of how to hire a lawyer they can trust...
...jobs going begging during the next twelve months. Farm-equipment makers are enjoying such a good year that International Harvester and John Deere are scouring the countryside for 50 miles around their Midwestern plants looking for skilled and semiskilled workers. In a Government-watched economy that is ever more conscious of bookkeeping, the young accountant is replacing the young engineer as the prize catch, and many firms are busy raiding college campuses to pick up accounting majors, often offering $600 a month to begin...
Corporate jets flew onto the market a few years ago at a time when most businessmen were reluctant to buy such expensive gadgets for fear of irritating cost-conscious stockholders. But improvement in corporate profits and the introduction of new and cheaper jets have allayed much of that fear. Many a president now believes that a rakish new jet is just what his company needs for greater mobility and smarter image. Now the executive jet is well on its way to gaining the acceptance already won by its piston-engine counterpart...
...determine the hazards, and what our competitors might do in the same situation." The surge in high-risk insurance stems from many factors, nearly all of them connected with the pace of modern living. Faster air travel, more complicated machines and greater mobility have made Americans more conscious of the need for greater protection. In fact, the very technological advances that bring convenience into people's lives also bring added risk - and added business for the insurance...
Tourism, however, promises a more comfortable economic future for Spain. Making the best of the sun and the country's picturesque landscape, Spaniards collected $500 million from tourists last summer. Then, too, the annual appearance of hundreds of thousands of bikini-clad, car-owning, politically conscious Europeans from north of the Pyrenees cannot help but jostle Spanish conservatism and apathy...