Word: conscious
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...There are many accomplishments to celebrate. The 1990s was a period of dynamic growth and transformation in the Americas. The embrace of democracy and free markets took steadily deeper root, laying a foundation of common values as well as a self-conscious resolve to pursue common causes. One of the centerpieces of that resolve has been the Summit of the Americas process, begun in Miami in 1994 and renewed in Santiago, Chile, in 1998. At these meetings we have jointly developed a hemispheric agenda of shared prosperity and inclusiveness that puts the needs of people - some 800 million of them...
...horrifically, to that crash, not merely showing it as the major figures in three intertwined stories experience it but also letting us see their lives prior to and after the disaster that radically reshapes their fates. Inarritu, 37, who has made hundreds of TV commercials in Mexico City, consciously intends his movie to be a portrait of his "dangerous, beautiful" hometown. The film is muy espanol, a portrait that blends harsh realism with a curious tenderness. It is also muy Bunuel, but without his conscious surrealism and with a fierce, cinematic energy that is uniquely Inarritu...
...Self-Conscious Split Reality...
...teachers junior year talked a lot about Brazil. He would say, 'A lot of coffee is grown in Brazil, but do you think that people in Brzil actually drink it?' I stopped drinking coffee after that. I just became a lot more conscious about farming issues," Bar Am says...
When President Bush unveiled his first budget on Monday, some socially conscious people were probably disappointed to see that military spending rose by $14 billion to an astronomical $310.5 billion. But they should not be disappointed. We need to spend more money on the military. Much more. Perhaps on the order of tens of billions of dollars...