Word: conscious
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...easiest people to deal with. They want to control the user experience because in the end they are going to get blamed for it," says mobile analyst Roger Entner of IAG Research. Banks, on the other hand, are hyper-cautious. "They are so conservative and so security conscious. They don't want to do anything that will lead to fraud," says Gerry Purdy, chief mobile analyst at Frost & Sullivan...
Regardless of the socially-conscious pretensions of Harvard administrators, students, like all men, naturally gravitate toward others who share their interests, their background, and their worldviews. If students cannot express that inclination in their House placement, they will seek the camaraderie in cultural organizations, sports teams, and other extracurriculars. And thus will leave the Houses empty of any real sense of community...
...sustained by, an utterly unwarranted belief in themselves. Ferrell knows, as surely as his characters don't, that his body is nothing to boast about. So to display it as if it were worthy of a Muscle & Fitness cover is to tell us that they are as unself-conscious as they are self-unaware. Ferrell might be the fellow who ran naked across the stage at the 1974 Oscar ceremony, inspiring this ad lib by David Niven: "Isn't it fascinating to think that probably the only laugh that man will ever get in his life is by stripping...
...Hailing from a family of prosperous merchants, the artist was particularly suited to capture the essence of his aristocratic subjects and satisfy their status-conscious sensibilities. His economic independence also gave Piero the opportunity to explore other intellectual pursuits, most notably arithmetic, algebra and geometry...
...that would set limits on industrial greenhouse gases and let companies that do better than required sell pollution credits to those that fail to meet targets. One credit worth of extra pollution from a dirty company is offset by one credit worth of extra cleanliness from a more environmentally conscious company, and the clean company is paid for its effort too. This is just the kind of strategy that was implemented in 1990 to curb sulfur dioxide--the leading cause of acid rain--and has resulted in a 35% reduction of the pollutant since...