Word: conscious
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...People are just more aware and more conscious of how they're spending their money," she says. "They'll go somewhere where the prices are lower rather than coming here. There seems to be more of an effort to save money in areas where people used to be frivolous...
...always, we welcome your comments by letter or e-mail letters@time.com) And to find Web resources on global warming or see how eco-conscious you really are, go to time.com...
Experts argue that a solution to this tendency towards segregation can only be reached by a conscious and purposeful effort. These steps would include more serious fair housing enforcement and support for dwindling interracial communities...
...emigrant is “a kind which is disappearing,” the epitome of “a conscious self-sacrifice—he died in his homeland, but was never born elsewhere,” claims Lausevic. Similarly, Dimic envisions emigration as a “pathological state” of a person who does not belong anywhere. Individual personal émigré dilemmas intertwine in the play. “Speaking to Jack [in the gastarbaiter role], I was speaking to myself,” says Lausevic. Similarly, Lausevic warns us of the threat...
...this happened was over 200 years ago. Then it was Great Britain that was the superpower, flexing its muscles across the globe, and imposing its sense of its own destiny on the world. China, however, was proving stubborn, intensely aware of the vulnerability of its borders and equally self-conscious about its prestige. The reigning Qianlong emperor, as part of the process of expanding and consolidating China's borders, had also restricted trade with the Western powers to a small perimeter outside the city walls of Canton. The British chafed at this limitation, and sought a wider zone of commercial...