Word: conscious
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Rapidly rising medical costs will prompt health care providers and consumers to become more cost conscious, which will cause major changes in the provision of health care in the 1990s, a group of Harvard experts predicted yesterday at a symposium entitled "Health Care: Opportunities and Burdens...
Universities, and especially Harvard, also need to take a more conscious role in a broader range of policy decisions--and not just on issues directly related to each individual institution. While Harvard has stopped using money given under conditions that constrain academic freedom, it should also lobby actively to end government attempts to impose such constraints. And while Harvard has done a good job lobbying for increased federal student aid, it has not taken a very active role in the debate on improving the nation's grade schools...
Lauren is acutely profit conscious. But since the only shareholders he needs to please are himself and Strom, he has leeway to experiment and to pursue a sometimes whimsical strategy. "I don't have a master plan," he says. "It gets more complicated as it grows." So far, Lauren's whimsy has been highly accurate in locating successful commercial opportunities. Says Strom: "I had no idea it would go like this. I remember saying to myself, 'If this business ever hits $20 million, I'll retire.' But I keep upping the stakes...
...passengers is a relatively recent change in flight-flow procedures. Instead of letting airliners circle jammed airports waiting to land, the FAA has forbidden them to take off until air controllers are sure that the planes can touch down promptly at their destinations. This saves fuel, which the cost-conscious airlines love, and reduces the sky stack-up, which overworked controllers appreciate. It is also safer, which everyone should admire...
...olds that was made for 40-year-olds. It's The Hardy Boys as filtered through the sensibility of Judy Blume. It's The Goonies with angst but without the pirates. It's S.E. Hinton's rewrite of Leave It to Beaver. It is, in other words, a self-conscious elegy to the reckless dreams of youth. The film's four young friends -- sweet, smart Gordie (Wil Wheaton), take-charge Chris (River Phoenix), feisty Teddy (Corey Feldman) and fat Vern (Jerry O'Connell) -- are forever stopping in their tracks to proclaim, "I'm in the prime of my life...