Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bribes, kickbacks and blackmail that led to an overhaul of the IRS in the 1950s, its yearlong probe has unearthed evidence of disturbing misconduct: several instances of alleged wrongdoing by high-level IRS officials in the past five years and an attempted cover-up by the agency's image-conscious leaders...
...yearlong probe has unearthed evidence of alleged wrongdoing by high-level Internal Revenue Service officials in the past five years and an attempted cover-up by the agency's image-conscious leaders. -- The cable-television industry faces fiercer competition. -- Computer genius Seymour Cray breaks away from the company he founded...
...world's nations have declared their aim of phasing out production of ozone-destroying CFCs by the end of the century. But that is not good enough for the environment-conscious citizens of Vermont. Governor Madeleine Kunin will soon sign state legislation designed to curb the chemicals more swiftly. Starting in 1993, selling new cars that use CFCs in air conditioners will be illegal in Vermont...
...daughter of a Jamestown, N.Y., electrician, Ball left home at 15 to study acting in New York City. Although she started as a model and chorus-line beauty, she never lost touch with the insecure, self-conscious adolescent inside her and seemed most at ease when playing a zany or a frump. Her great creation was the Lucy character, a Little Scamp who was forever conniving, forever failing, forever meriting punishment yet winning forgiveness. The thwarted schemer was a figure dating back to the Romans if not the Greeks, but Ball deftly sentimentalized the character, merged its cunning intellect with...
...acre Hyde Park, N.Y., campus of the Culinary Institute of America, known in food circles as "the other C.I.A.," the school runs four different restaurants. The 1,850 students learn regional U.S. dishes for the American Bounty Kitchen, Italian fare for the Caterina de Medici restaurant and health- conscious dinners for St. Andrew's Cafe...