Word: consciously
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...early years of the century, Los Angeles had more than 1,000 miles of urban rail lines, more than any other U.S. city. By 1961, the trains were defeated by freeways and the conscious effort of auto, tire and oil companies to cripple rail transit, for which they were convicted in court. The new rail project, financed by adding .5% to the area's existing 6% sales tax, will share much of the right-of-way of the old system. The first passengers will board in 1989, and by the year 2000, says the Los Angeles County transportation commission...
...their three-day visit this weekend to Washington and then, after a brief frenzy of sight-seeing, partygoing and media deluge, hop down to Palm Beach for a round of polo and another party. But after all, what are you missing? Up close, Charles is a polite, diffident, self-conscious fellow, a man who, at 36, after years as a junior executive, is still a long way from inheriting the family business. Yes, Diana is charming, and at 24 she has become stunningly self-assured. But she will not be sharing palace confidences with her dinner companions nor making anything...
...treatise on "The Semiotics of Semiotics," Wlad Godzich professes the self-conscious hope "to have been doing semiotics and not merely to have been writing about it." It is Barthes, however, who executes the language of language with consummate grace. Whether he is posing with candid self exposure in a Playboy interview ("I had a super skinny morphology throughout my youth") or indulging in speculation about the culinary orgasms of Brillat-Savarin ("BS desires the word as he desires truffles") or performing with routine ease a classic clinical dissection of text ("A Textual Analysis of a Tale...
...Still conscious when he was taken to the emergency ward of St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Brighton, Saclese suffered neck and back injuries. He was treated and released a few hours later...
...Towards the end of the 60s, most people became more socially conscious, and the CCA simply joined this enlightened awareness," says Elaine Kistiakowsky, active in the association for 25 years and currently one of its vice presidents. "To have not changed meant you had to be very unconcerned with people...