Word: consciously
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Other lawmakers might sympathize. A survey project at George Washington University in Washington found that 25 of some 500 AIDS-related bills introduced in state legislatures this year proposed criminal sanctions for conscious transmission of the disease. Florida and Idaho have made it a crime knowingly to expose another person to the virus. The possible penalties include prison terms of 60 days in Florida, six months in Idaho. A similar criminalization measure awaits Governor Edwin Edwards' signature in Louisiana: penalties could range as high as a $5,000 fine and ten years in prison. A new Nevada law requires that...
Whether the change in the NSC's role was conscious or evolutionary, it is clear that in anticipation of a congressional ban on CIA contact with the contras, Casey and National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane turned to North to run the secret war in Nicaragua. Says Neil Livingstone, a consultant on counterterrorism who worked with North: "Bill Casey was not prepared to fight the bureaucratic battles. He knew there were a lot of people who could raise great problems if they went public with their concerns. He turned the NSC into the Washington station...
Affirmative Action. Powell's 1978 opinion in the 5-to-4 Bakke decision on university admissions, at the time not fully backed by any other Justice, influenced what came to be the court's general approach in employment as well as education: race-conscious goals are permissible so long as they do not become permanent, rigid quota systems. In the term just concluded, Powell cast the swing vote in upholding a promotion plan for black Alabama state troopers. But the Reagan Administration has been campaigning to abolish numerical hiring and promotion goals for minorities and women, and Powell could...
...roominess, which has given him space to shift the furniture without destroying the house. The beauty of the Constitution is that it offers its resident a perpetual challenge to find his own equilibrium within the structure. Miraculously, to date he has managed to do that, as if he were conscious of the fact that the Constitution reflects his nature, mirroring his competing tendencies to squat adamantly and lurch suddenly. In a way, he continually rediscovers himself in that house, a brand-new American for every decade of problems...
...trials of everyday drudges on the local soap opera Crossroads. The screen that separates us from royals is, after all, a two-way illusion. When the Queen Mother decided once to drop in on a typical French bistro to dine in the company of ordinary folk, her security-conscious host promptly filled the place with policemen dressed up to look like ordinary folk...