Word: consciousnesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Actually, Joe just thinks it was for two weeks that he stayed awake. His proctor in Weld South told him it was possible to go to sleep dream you're not sleeping, so that when you wake up, it seems like you've been fully conscious the whole time. Re-evaluating his opening statistic after learning this, Joe realized "I was never really sure whether I was sleeping or not." Anyhow, the uncertainty was reason enough to drive him into University Health Services for sleeping pills, which brought on the long-awaited blissful slumber...
During a conversation, I mentioned that I had a son-in-law who spoke Mandarin. Our interpreter-guide told us that the Chinese have dropped that class-conscious word...
...agreement with Ford, auto workers will receive 13 paid days off per year, in addition to the 33 holiday and vacation days they already receive off. This section of the contract--Ford's opposition to it prompted the 22-day strike against the company on September 14--is a conscious first step for the union in its future plans for the auto industry. The increase in paid days off, union officials hope, will force auto industrialists to add more workers without wage cuts for union members already holding jobs...
...issue most damaging to the Social Democrats arose late in the campaign: a charge by Fälldin that the government's ambitious program for construction of nuclear-power plants was callously endangering Sweden's environment and population. This apparently won the support of many environment-conscious Swedes...
Noiseless Shift. TIME Correspondent Ed Reingold last week drove a Ford van equipped with a DDE engine. His report: "If you didn't know the cutout engine was in the car, you probably would not even feel the difference. When you know, you are conscious of the car's being in the six-cylinder or three-cylinder mode only at certain points; you feel a small, noiseless shift...