Word: conscious
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...nations of sub-Saharan Africa is to stop the spread of a disease that threatens to drag the continent into anarchy. And where resources are already scarce, the unspoken choice may be to simply let the majority of those currently infected with HIV die. But that essentially implies a conscious choice by the world's wealthier nations to let some 30 million poor people die of a treatable disease rather than spend the money on keeping them alive. And that, presumably, is a choice with which the global citizenry won't feel entirely comfortable. At least not if Kofi Annan...
...print. If I hadn't read it, I don't think I would have made it--the book was that important--because it outlined a system of thought that was the absolute turning point in my life, in my attitude toward myself. Before it, I was so self-conscious and so underestimated myself that a dirty look would deter me. I didn't feel pretty, and though I was loaded with talent, I didn't realize any of it. My husband, to his credit, had been urging me to try comedy. On March 7, 1955, at 37, I debuted...
...Like his visits to the Sequoia National Park and the Everglades over the last two weeks, the Rose Garden speech was more concerned with making Bush look environmentally conscious than it was in offering a brave new approach to the issue of global warming. The park visits were cooked up months ago to "to solve the arsenic problem," as one senior White House aide put it. The "arsenic problem," was the first blow to the administration's environmental image after the White House announced a review of last-minute Clinton-imposed regulations on the level of arsenic in the drinking...
...negative attitude is the dark underbelly of academic life. It is sometimes a cynical attitude, taking the viewpoint that courses at Harvard constitute nothing more than a “system to beat,” leading to formulaic essays and other conscious efforts to give graders “what they want...
...same thing as racial diversity. In their estimation, organizations can never escape the enduring particularities of class, race and gender. I think the truth of The Crimson’s dedication to fairness, tolerance and viewpoint diversity can be established independently. Writers of all stripes are, in fact, conscious of gender and race distinctions. People intrinsically check and re-check their prose for language that stigmatizes, divides or labels. On listservs and on campus, in our daily log and in the newsroom, editors carefully weigh the effects, sources and content of the news coverage against a background of pitched emotion...