Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...segments; we are one world, whether we like it or not. It is difficult for the affluent countries to understand the pressures we have from our own people. We got left out of the race for industrialization, and we have to industrialize at a time when people are more conscious of their rights and privileges. For India, with its vast population [683 million], everything is multiplied that many times. Methods that work in an advanced society do not always work in ours. We are told by the U.S., for instance, that we should depend more on private commercial borrowing...
...religions and all castes. This is not to say that there is not caste conflict. There is from time to time. We have given the Harijans [untouchables] new respect, and those who were exploiting them resent it. The Harijans themselves are much more aggressive and much more conscious of their rights. This is what brings about confrontation...
...diet-conscious America, when one fad falls, the next amazing shrinking cure is always on its way. And at Procter & Gamble right now they are talking about a new substance that can create a creamy-rich milkshake or a buttery spread that is not the least bit fattening. It is a zero-calorie dead ringer for dietary fat called sucrose polyester (SPE), and last week researchers at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center reported SPE's first successful test. The compound contains eight fatty acids instead of the three that make up ordinary fats. As a result, digestive enzymes...
...made his own list. He wrote his line about writers we might miss in a minor book called The Unquiet Grave (1944). He died in 1974. But open the book now, in 1982, and his mordant, elegant light pours out of the volume, alive, into the eye, the waiting, conscious mind...
...also in cohabitation." The sheer energy of the show indicates that they have worked hard to merge their personalities and lifestyles with those of the characters they play--a 24-hour-a-day pysche-up technique. And because they generally succeed, one is tempted to forgive their self-conscious stab at hippydom, as well as the program notes urging the audience to "stand up and join in confronting [the show's] issues, which have taken fresh meaning in recent months...