Word: consciously
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...admission that the government can no longer provide a job for everyone. It is also a recognition that some functions are best performed by private enterprise. Some of China's young people are now going to have to take their chances as employees of fickle, profit-conscious businessmen...
DISTURBING AS THIS TYPE of repulsion may be, it evidences a frantic, self-conscious energy that produces most of Bedlam's best and worst aspects. Tension shows up in the jerky diction of the first stories, "Over 4000 Square Miles" and "The Return," which bristle with the odd, awkwardly-placed "nevertheless" and "moreover" and sentences like. "At last Rucker understood that all the sensations of his long experience had this night joined together in a motiveless musical triumph that was almost violent." In such over-intense passages, one conjures up Domini teetering on chair-edge, biting his nails...
Squash coach Dave Fish will assemble a band of walking wounded for the men's squash team's season opener today at Hemenway (3 p.m.), and somehow it's only fitting that his hobbling fife-and-drum corps will do battle with the fitness-conscious servicemen from Navy...
...faculty have opposed the idea of using race or sex as elements in the selection process. In fact, the day after the review supported a race-conscious policy, the chairman of a faculty committee scrutinizing the journal told editors that if they opted to use race as a criterion, the law faculty would probably abandon its traditional practice of sending the grades of top first-year law students to help with the selection of editors...
...ENDORSE increased minority participation in the Harvard Law Review. Such growth, must not, however, spring from any minority-conscious admissions policy. Broadening the admissions criteria beyond excellence in academic and written work might well achieve this desirable goal, but it would also stigmatize certain minorities as collectively inferior to other, better represented groups. Those who call for a greater diversity of perspective imply that because in the past minorities have been underrepresented on the review, they can never meet the present standards in numbers sufficient to guarantee them a visible role on the Review--unless they are given a handout...