Word: conscious
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...predecessors. So argues Donald Keene, the distinguished American scholar and leading interpreter of Japanese civilization, in his elegant, incisive new biography, Yoshimasa and the Silver Pavilion: The Creation of the Soul of Japan. The arts in 15th century Japan were (with a few exceptions such as Noh drama) self-conscious imitations of the cultural achievements of China. Keene painstakingly builds the case that much of the aesthetic sensibility that modern Japanese people now think of as being especially Japanese can be traced to the exquisite refinement of taste that evolved under Yoshimasa...
...fewer sheets to do the job, which easily makes up for the fact that it offers only 400 sheets per roll. And the University wouldn’t necessarily have to go 100 percent Cottonelle—Cabot House offers a good middle ground for the cost and conservation conscious: its superintendent offers both types of paper so that students have a choice...
Even when an election is not months away, such probes mean different things to different people. To Democrats, a blue-ribbon panel would discover whether Administration hard-liners shopped around for intelligence that fit their war aims. "The Administration made a conscious decision to cherry-pick the intelligence and to make the most aggressive case possible ... based upon its belief that [ousting Saddam] was the right thing to do," says Indiana's Evan Bayh, a Democrat on the Intelligence Committee. "The caveats were in there from the beginning, but they became increasingly less emphasized and then finally were dropped altogether...
...have wondered if it was a conscious decision that the stay would run out on the 50th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education,” Tribe said...
...only this weekend but over the course of this entire year, relays have been a real focus for us,” Budris said. “We were conscious of the fact that last year we never beat Princeton in a relay...It pisses you off to know that Princeton is leading you in relays all the time and that’s a huge difference in this team this year...