Word: consciously
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...review is tentatively committed to adopting some form of "race-conscious" policy, thanks to a razor-thin 42-39 vote two weeks ago. But recent pressure by key faculty members could easily lead the editors to overturn that commitment. We urge the review to stick to its guns, and to maintain its determination to compensate for pervasive discrimination by including race as a consideration along with grades and writing samples...
...exception of France, no Western European country has shown the willingness to spend what it takes to develop a credible military force. "The Europeans made a conscious decision not to emphasize conventional arms buildups way back in the 1950s," says a U.S. diplomat. "They opted for the American nuclear umbrella instead. If they want that umbrella to be folded up, they presumably know the consequences and accept them. We can't graft backbone...
Hamburger sales are suffering because of the calorie-conscious American public's desire to eat less beef. At almost all of the 2,180 Wendy's, for example, there are now salad bars, which have been big attractions for dieters...
...democracy (indeed, he seems to use the word at least a half a dozen times a day) Bernays was dismayed when he learned that Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi minister of propaganda, displayed a copy of his Propaganda in his library. Bernays wrote in the 1928 book that "the conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses" is the mechanism by which the true wielders of power rule a country. "They were going after the thing on a scientific basis," says Bernays. "I felt very badly but I couldn't do anything about it. After...
Four of us communal-living, celibate, nonsmoking, diet-conscious Franciscan Mars took TIME's life-expectancy quiz conjointly. It was a puzzlement. Friar No. 1, reasoning he lived with neither spouse nor friend, subtracted 1 point. Friar No. 2, claiming Friar No. 1 as his friend, added 5. Friar No. 3, a happy sort (add 1), was unhappy (subtract 2) that Friar No. 1 was friendless. Friar No. 4, to his consternation, had passed on last year...