Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...computer swallowed a line or paragraph. The pica mechanism finally refused to work at all, and every page had to be written in tiny elite type. It was a thesis-padder's nightmare. In the terminal room, grad students, government and economics concentrators hunched over the displays, ever-conscious of the vultures peering over their shoulders and none-too-subtly checking their wristwatches...
Adding to the desperate atmosphere is an eleven-member contingent of the Guardian Angels, a publicity-conscious group of young New Yorkers who roam that city's troubled subway system in hopes of preventing crimes. Their fares to Atlanta were paid by a New York businessman, and local supporters gave them housing, a van and free gasoline. Since then the Angels, wearing their trademark red berets, have been patrolling Atlanta's black neighborhoods. The City-Wide Advisory Council on Housing, Inc., a public housing lobby group, has asked the Angels to establish a permanent chapter in Atlanta. Other...
Plant Manager Shiro Yamada, 58, insists that there are few differences between workers in the U.S. and Japan. Says he: "Americans are as quality conscious as the Japanese. But the question has been how to motivate them." Yamada's way is to bathe his U.S. employees in personal attention. Workers with perfect attendance records are treated to dinner once a year at a posh restaurant downtown. When one employee complained that a refrigerator for storing lunches was too small, it was replaced a few days later with a larger one. Vice President Masayoshi Morimoto, known as Mike around...
...when D.W. Griffith, Charles Chaplin, Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks deserted the studios to form United Artists, one executive declared: "The lunatics have taken charge of the asylum." That wasn't - and isn't - a bad thing. To make films, it helps to be cost-conscious. But to make a difference, you've got to be a little movie...
...regional joyalty and wide-spread poverty diminish the possibility of realizing this dream in the minds of all save Common Market-conscious politicians, who forget that national pride cannot bring together Andalucian gazpacho and Cordoban shoes...