Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...budget-conscious Congressmen alarmed by the prospect of $100 billion deficits, the burgeoning Pentagon budget seems to be the obvious place to attack. In such a $258 billion behemoth, how could there fail to be fat by the ton? The fiscal 1983 Defense Department requests are up 13.2%, after inflation, from the current year, and the five-year forecast calls for spending a total of $1.6 trillion, an amount that Ronald Reagan might try to make comprehensible by describing a stack of dollar bills 107,000 miles high. Reflecting on these towering sums, New York Democratic Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan...
...Reagan Administration is more realistic as far as the threat of the Soviet Union is concerned. The South African government is absolutely committed to a peaceful solution in Namibia and is conscious of the benefits that would flow from an internationally acceptable solution. To achieve the latter and yet not to bring peace and stability would be a disaster. We are making that distinction quite clear to the U.S. Government. The Soviet Union is not interested in a peaceful solution. We are not prepared, for the rest of history, to be blamed for destroying a country. My government...
...Burger Court in recent years has retrenched somewhat on the gains made by its predecessor, the activist and rights-conscious tribunal of Earl Warren. Right-wingers have assailed the Court for not scrapping even more of that Court's "Liberal solutions. "But doubts about specific Court decisions are no excuse for limiting its authority as the branch most committed to defending civil rights. If the Reagan Administration continues its attempts to roll back the social legislation of the sixties, we may need a truly activist Court--one committed to defending civil rights and equipped to do so--more than ever...
...damage-control squad will doubtless be joined by groups with well-honed sexual biases to apply to the problem. Some image-conscious gays may blanch at the sight of Older Woman Donnelly making a pass at a minor, which is what Hemingway is at the beginning of their four-year affair, and they are not going to care for Writer-Director Towne's deromanticized view of the romance either. Neither are determined heterosexuals, who like to turn situations like this into tragedy-everyone tortured by irresistible forces, guilts and a society that misunderstands and condemns. Towne seems to shrug...
...competition. "To some degree it has led to a distortion of what we do. We cannot help being conscious of our circulation, and occasionally we are almost solely conscious of our circulation. There would be no discussion--none what-soever--of whether we continued to cover the conventions gavel-to-gavel if the number of viewers, that is, our circulation, was high or as high as it used...