Word: consciously
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...experience made me conscious of how little we know about what can be done. I was there for two years and believed I was part of this great effort to improve the life of people. But nothing seemed to be happening...
...need for closer cooperation between Washington and Europe. We have to find a method of closer, regular consultation. We were very conscious that after Afghanistan it took a little time to spring into action. On the other hand, we don't want to burden you with too many visits across the Atlantic...
...ours against gays is not based on rational reasoning. I believe it stems largely from insecurity, from a deep fear that we may be or become gay ourselves. For some, great affection for a friend of the same sex may cause this worry. For others, it may be less conscious. But, social attitudes toward homosexuality magnify this worry into a horror. Some respond to it with derision or hostility to gays, hoping this will reaffirm their heterosexuality. But most simply try to crowd any thought of homosexuality out of their heads. That creates another source of hostility to gays: ignorance...
Regardless of party affiliation or prominence, government waste and fraud is constantly in the public eye, hounded and exposed by a well armed array of waste-watchers from Ralph Nader to Jack Anderson to vindictive congressional committees. The public sector is available and accountable to a scruitinizing, sensitive, cost-conscious public. But what of the red tape and bureaucratic mismanagement in the private sector, as rampant if less detectable than public fraud? Who blows the whistle on individual, private rip-offs of the unwary customer...
...Creating a more conscious and systematic referral system for job opportunities in faculties and departments that must improve their affirmative action performances...