Word: conscious
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...renovations plans should make a conscious effort to embrace as many different types of performing arts groups as possible. This means the building should be home to a wide variety of performances, including theater, music, dance and cultural arts. We are worried that a narrow focus on any one or two "privileged" groups would turn the building into just another kind of clubhouse. The goal should be to maximize student use of the building while maintaining a sense of building character and purpose...
...simple explanation: Nokia's phones work well and look great. The company, notes Josephthal & Co.'s Mirva Anttila, was the first to recognize that different models would appeal to different market segments--teenagers, the fashion-conscious, bargain hunters and mobile professionals. The 2100 series, unveiled in 1994, was its breakthrough product, the first with changeable face plates and an attractively curvy design. Nokia reinvented the mobile phone as an accessory that more and more people just had to have...
...took the news pretty hard. Eliot had fallen short in previous competitions and everyone thought it was our month. We were due. We had a promising young transfer from the Quad who was an all-state recycler in high school, an aqua green dome that all but screamed "environmentally conscious!" and with the Charles so close it was easy to reduce waste. Power reduction was, unfortunately, another matter entirely...
...entire height of the building. It also has size, which modern art loves. And its sooty past is apposite. Y.B.A.s (as young British artists are known) have been showing and creating their works in abandoned warehouses and factories for years, as have young artists everywhere. "We were very conscious of the way artists work when we chose this building," says Serota. "We did a survey of artists and asked where they liked to see their work. Some liked converted industrial buildings. Some liked the top-lighted galleries of the turn of the 19th century. But almost none of them liked...
...social stuff, learning about people. But you know what, I was an outcast at first. Like freshman year, I was really shy-but then I decided to be popular. I was like, "I want girls to like me, I want to be outgoing." So I made a conscious decision to be popular and I started being more flirtatious and rebellious. But I was still a terrible student...