Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...topmost level-and people are able to cling to prejudice more easily in the abstract. With a real live female candidate stumping the country and getting incessant public attention between now and November, one who is unafraid of seeming both feminine and strong, a lot of half-baked, half-conscious bias should slough away. "Kennedy proved that Catholics had finally arrived in American society, that they could win any office, run any corporation, achieve any social position," says Stuart Eizenstat, a Presidential Adviser in the Carter Administration. "This shows that women are now full-fledged and equal members of society...
Americans are in some ways a uniquely self-conscious people. If they do not feel good about themselves, they feel awful about themselves. America becomes Amerika, evil in the world, or else an overgrown incompetent. But perhaps Americans have developed a more mature appreciation of themselves. They exhibited last week something of the sweet, intense idealism that they have demonstrated as the Olympic torch has made its way across the U.S. to Los Angeles, and some of the mellowed fervor that they felt on Memorial Day when an Unknown from the Viet Nam War was installed at Arlington National Cemetery...
...French-speaking regions. Since Trudeau is from Quebec, the convention would have had to break with custom to choose Chrétien. Moreover, Turner's impressive bearing and boardroom presence probably represent what the delegates feel their countrymen want in a national leader. All at the convention were conscious of the party's shift from the Trudeau era of activism and charismatic leadership. Reflecting on how different last week's proceedings were from the previous time the Liberals chose a leader, in 1968, Trudeau Aide Tom Axworthy remarked ruefully, "It can be argued that the country needs...
...informed delegate at the convention said that Kerry operatives made a conscious effort to lift connolly over the 15 percent cut-off on the second ballot Connolly had received a mere 8 percent on the first ballot and had to scramble for sympathy votes to keep him in the race...
...dorsal horn may be more than one meter, and it can take about two seconds for the message to arrive. From there, it is relayed in a bewildering flurry of chemical messages to the brain, first to the thalamus, where sensations like heat, cold, pain and touch first become conscious. Then on to the cerebral cortex, where the intensity and location of pain are recognized. This final stretch of the pathway is the great terra incognita in pain research. Says Fields...