Word: consciously
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...double standard practiced by tobacco companies not end with marketing techniques. Hooked American smokers, fearful of tobacco's health hazards, can at least turn to safer "low tar" cigarettes. Instead of defiantly boasting "I'd rather fight than switch," health-conscious smokes can mumble, "Well, I guess I'd rather switch than wait to see which gets me first--the cardiovascular disease or the lung cancer." But low tar cigarettes cost firms like Philip Morris much more to produce than the high-tar variety. As a result, the tobacco sold abroad contains much higher tar levels than domestic cigarettes...
...Conscious of the redundant coverage given Montana and others, the magazines also offer articles which strive to be different. Lou Sahadi's Pro Football Annual unveils "secret ratings on every quarterback" from the "private files" of one of the league's most respected personnel experts Goal Post Football offers a "New!! ACCU-RATE Power Rating System" for the National Football League's 28 teams. And Game Plan Pro Football employs the "Stat-Key System" for the same purpose. "The Stat-Key annual enables the fan to estimate point differences between the scores of opposing teams. The Offensive and Defensive ratings...
...with the insipidness of her character. Virtually insane, she consistently insists that she had an affair with James Dean some 20 years before while he was filming the movie Giant. Her every movement, including her stiff posture and constantly flickering tongue, make Mona a treacherously attractive woman. Her self-conscious motions and carefully modulated voice reveal a delicately constructed character who could never face the brutality of the external world and is forced to wither away in the vapid small town. Dennis brings this crazed woman's self-proclaimed role as the mother of Dean's illegitimate son into perspective...
...boys, many of them barely teenagers, stared up at her in shock as she entered the Iraqi prison camp during the thick of the Iran-Iraq war. Though many of the wounded lay barely conscious on what few blankets the prison-hospital could provide, all of them covered their heads when a Western woman paid an unexpected visit to the ward. Ill as they were, they still made a feeble effort to show their offense at the woman's appalling lack of modesty. For Karen Elliott House, The Wall Street Journal's diplomatic correspondent, it was not the first time...
...were dissatisfied, but because they just needed someone to talk to someone at one time, and they did." Only a small proportion of students are repeat customers and return for more than one Reading Period semester," Catlin says, noting that there are still always a few who are "chronically conscious about academia...