Word: reflective
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When the Agent Orange controversy first started to rage, the manufacturers of the chemicals involved presented all the results of their research to the government. The fact that these herbicides are still in wide use today ought to reflect the government's agreement that they are not as dangerous as popular belief holds...
...campaign gets into full swing, the Crimson can reflect on some initial successes and look forward to accomplishing many more...
Tagliente, a varsity football player during his undergraduate days all the U.S. Naval Academy, now own several local burger King restaurants. Each restaurant "tries to reflect the dominant influence" in the community through décor, Tagliente says. He adds that the Harvard motif represents "quite an investment...
Such elaborate ceremonies, think some observers, reflect the younger generation's rebellion against traditional reserve and modesty. The oldsters, however, recalling postwar poverty, enjoy flaunting their yen. Notes Tokyoite Ben Tsuchiya, who assisted at his brother's recent wedding: "If it is beautifully done, the wedding makes the parents look good, and can even help in business because it impresses people...
Never appearing to reflect on the situation in Poland. Nowak only says. "I must concentrate on work. I must drive them harder." His apolitical and self-centered character severs him from the pulse of his homeland, and ironically, from England too. In the opening scene at the airport, the heretofore businesslike passport checkers inquisitively asks him if he belongs to Solidarity. He replies a hurried "no," commenting ironically. "That was the only true answer I gave...