Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from above the hole, such thoughts as, "It was something we talked about right after the game last night," Harvard Coach Bill Cleary said. "And we talked about it before the game tonight, but it's a sub-conscious thing. I guess it's always in the back of [the Harvard players'] minds...
Everyone is familiar with Ronald Reagan's hair, for example. The president is very conscious of his public image and knows that when people look at him, they also see the hair which abuts his face. Thus he has designed his hair to conform to the image he tries to project: large and well-oiled, it says, "This man is head of a large and well-oiled government...
Eric S. Fleischer '88, who received a strip-a-gram in the Mather House dining hall a few weeks ago, said he felt more conscious of the laughter of those around him than...
Writing the lead opinion, however, Justice William Brennan maintained that the Alabama troopers' discrimination was "pervasive, systematic and obstinate." That pattern, he said, "created a profound need and a firm justification for the race-conscious relief." In the past the court has looked with favor only on affirmative-action plans that minimize penalties to the innocent, but the harm to white officers in this case, wrote Brennan, was limited to the time necessary to achieve the integration goal and so "only postpones the promotions of qualified whites...
...young-adult novels, have good qualities. He knows what the teens' Top 40 moral issues are, and he places his stories in palpably realistic contexts. Not only do his kids speak up-to-the-minute adolescent idiom and illustrate the latest dress code perfectly, they attend clangorously class-conscious public high schools, whose unexamined values the protagonists must always challenge -- and defeat...