Word: consciously
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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generation of Soviet leadership will inevitably be less conscious of the great Soviet sacrifices of World War II. It will be increasingly paranoid and more conscious of its power, while presiding over increasing failures within its own country. It will be threatened by centrifugal pressures in areas that are under Soviet hegemony. It may be tempted to strike out overseas to compensate for its troubles at home. On Détente. It cannot be, and never...
...letter to the London Times, the Canon of Westminster, the Rev. John Austin Baker, implored the government to be more flexible. "Even at this late hour an attempt could be made to avert a new legacy of bloodshed and bitterness," he wrote, "and many people here in England are conscious of our responsibility not only in but for this tragic situation." At week's end Catholic Political Leader John Hume reported that "a door has been opened" in his talks with Ulster Secretary of State Humphrey Atkins. Most observers devoutly hoped so. If some room for compromise...
...Consumers today are more conscious of the rising cost of money and all the talk of another dip in the economy. We don't see them going out on any limbs. They're remaining cautious." And Robert T. Parry, chief economist for California's Security Pacific National Bank, says that consumers are approaching the holiday season fearful of "possible unemployment, inflation and higher Social Security taxes coming soon after Christmas...
...experts say that this is caused by the American shift to a more European style of living and a desire to own fewer, but better built, things. Says George Core, a vice president of Rike's, a department-store chain in the Dayton area: "The customer is value-conscious and will buy items like microwave ovens, even though the gift is expensive. Warm sweaters and winter coats are good this season, and customers are looking beyond the Christmas holidays to items that will be needed in the months ahead...
...cultural world, and its repercussions are still being felt. Some mention of contemporary endeavors would have rendered the material in the ICA show more conspicuously relevant to the present. Without such allusions, the apt timing of the exhibit looks like just a fortunate accident, an artistic coincidence--not a conscious design. More than simply betraying the spirit of Dada in straitjacketing its works, the ICA's presentation is a model of how museums function more as mausoleums than as regenerative forces that revive the art of the past to engage contemporary audiences...