Word: consciously
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...peeking around the hotel, always conscious of who people were and how they operated," he says. Richard Nixon, who campaigned at the Theresa in 1952, was the first politician to be photographed with Ron ("I immediately decided I wanted to become a Democrat," he jokes). Joe Louis, a frequent guest, gave him a pair of his boxing gloves. From the roof of the Theresa, 13 floors high, Ron and his friends would gaze out on the excitement of 125th Street -- the Apollo Theater, the street-corner orators, the hustlers -- and the poverty beyond...
...crazes and concerns about red meat and cholesterol. But there are still some who proudly hold their hot dogs high, disdaining the trend-followers who crowd into Luscious Licks for their few globs of tasteless, technicolor frozen yogurt. "The problem with New Englanders is that they are very health-conscious, and don't eat a lot of hot dogs," says Lamberti...
Japan's foreign aid appropriations of more than $10 billion in 1988 outstripped U.S. outlays, and Tokyo has increased its contributions to the World Bank and other environment-conscious lending institutions. The Takeshita government is willing to give more, but its efforts have ironically been hampered by the U.S., which is reluctant to give the Japanese a greater say in running these international groups. One solution might be to set up a new financial entity, an International Bank for Environmental Protection, in which the Japanese could have a major responsibility for both funding and management...
...Cost-conscious studios have created licensing and merchandising departments to arrange the deals, since free cars and other products save them millions each year in production costs. "Movie budgets have become unreasonably high," says director Badham, "so we're always looking to maximize the money available. From a producer's or a director's view, product placement is a great way to reduce the budget and keep the studio quiet...
...photographer to improve the paper's coverage of the Boston suburb's fast-growing Asian community. But editor William Ketter, who is chairman of the minorities committee of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, believes newspapers have to go further. They must, he insists, make a "deliberate and conscious effort" to reflect the diversity of their communities in every part of the paper, including graphics and comic strips...