Word: conscious
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...rising expenses, the University succeeded in keeping costs constant in several areas. After a 10 percent rise last year, the University did not increase spending on supplies and equipment this year. The report attributed the savings to “University-wide contracts with vendor partners together with cost-conscious purchasing practices.” Meanwhile, the rate of growth of salary and wage costs slowed to 3 percent from the previous year’s 6 percent. The report expressed concern about relatively flat growth in funding for sponsored research, which consists of grants from outside groups like...
...dining hall. I understand that she has made the personal decision not to eat meat, but is the sour face she makes while she watches me load steaks onto my plate really necessary? Why can’t she just let me eat delicious animals with a clear conscious? Now even when I’m picking out silverware I can see her out of the corner of my eye shaking her head in disapproval of my fork selection. I’m convinced this is the same person who told on me for committing the atrocious crime of using...
...want to embarrass an adult, give him an extended look at himself as an adolescent. When Apted corralled the kids for 7 Plus Seven, they were truer to their age than to their respective classes. At seven most of the children had an unself-conscious boldness; at 14, their eyes hardly met the camera's. At seven they were active; at 14, guarded, at times sullen - as if they were now on to Apted's game, and loath to play it. Some of the kids practically had to be cracked to come out of their shells. Nicholas buries his head...
...Watching the premature and apparently unself-conscious aging of the participants, I wonder if, in the fifth or sixth year of each cycle, they say to themselves, "Time to get a rinse, lose a stone or two, pull my marriage together and straighten out my kids." But that may be the bias of an American, relying on the superficial, the lure of eternal adolescence, more than your average Brit...
...What is at stake is the ability of our country, or anybody in our country, to voluntarily and consciously do anything about racial inequality. Anything that is race-conscious, they equate with racism, so all of the massive inequality is beyond the law, because addressing it becomes racist discrimination against white folks,” said Theodore M. Shaw, the director-counsel and president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Legal Defense & Educational Fund, who filed an amicus brief on behalf of the defendants. “They’re hypocrites and I think...