Word: reflective
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...this early stage, the polls tend to reflect heavily the name recognition that each candidate enjoys. Glenn, Mondale, McGovern and Jackson are far better known than the other contenders. In the case of Hart, part of the reason he trails badly in the preference rankings is that 60% of the voters say they are not yet familiar enough with him to form an opinion...
Reimbursement rates will be adjusted annually to reflect inflation and medical advances, and will vary regionally to accommodate the higher costs of running hospitals in urban areas. (The rate for a simple appendectomy in Chicago: $3,825; the same operation in Lawton, Okla.: $2,773.) Psychiatric hospitals, long-term care facilities and rehabilitation centers are exempt from the new regulations. So are hospitals in Maryland, New Jersey, New York and Massachusetts, which have their own cost-containment programs...
...this point in time, we could all sit back and reflect on the fact that the phones are all but installed and speculate that it is rather pointless to complain. But, as far as we are concerned, these seems to be no reason that we, today's student, should have to endure the lack of phones, privacy, and quiet, in addition to Harvard's general ineptitude, with absolutely no compensation or consideration. Harvard's convenient monopoly (read: stranglehold) on student housing makes their thoughtlessness all the more criminal. Will this corporation ever develop a conscience? Will they ever need...
...writers had labored anonymously before), many individual voices have been heard in TIME. Even so, we maintain a broad consistency of policy and beliefs. But we assert these beliefs with less evangelical fervor than was sometimes the case in the past. The change does not so much reflect an American crisis of faith?though that crisis is real?as indicate the world's growing diversity and complexity...
...possibilities. War is mankind in full panoply and in extremis. It has always been, too, a form of madness. But until this century, the world has been more inclined to consider the necessity of war, the glory of it, at any rate the inevitability of it, before pausing to reflect on its insanity. War was an adventure and a rite of passage...