Word: reflective
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Both the report and the new budget planning process reflect an effort by the center to be more accountable to the schools as well as more clear with itself about its objectives...
...skiing or walks on the beach or does mental weight lifting. Soros says he spends a third of his day "thinking, and trying to clarify my own thinking about where I should be going, and where the world is going. Until recently I didn't feel the need to reflect, but I really do feel the need to spend more time on reflection. It takes a lot of effort, and I am frankly stumped on some issues." He is married to Susan Weber Soros, a former art magazine publisher who runs Bard College's respected Graduate Center for Decorative Arts...
...Inevitably a number of officers felt justified in using illegal and at times fatal force. It was constantly necessary to emphasize to the officers that we were peace officers, servants of the community--not soldiers in a war against crime and drugs. Cities in free nations will never reflect the orderliness of Berlin under the Nazis or Moscow under the communists. In America police methods must comply with the law and community standards. They must not arise from a rigid concept of public order formulated within the police culture...
This is the debate's great question, the one that keeps the divorce ball bouncing: Does the high divorce rate reflect a massive cop-out by increasingly self-indulgent individuals, or is it based in vast social forces such as the economic independence of women? It's a question that can't be answered with statistics, though certain experts try. According to sociologist Bumpass, "There have been fluctuations around the trend line, but the overall dynamic that has given rise to increased divorce has deep historical roots." He takes a lofty, long view and tends to speak in ivory-tower...
...motives while frittering away the public's trust and time with self-entertaining political mischief. Instead of a legitimate investigation into campaign-finance abuses [NATION, July 21], Senator Fred Thompson presents a partisan sideshow. Rather than the noble elephant, the Republicans' symbol should be the dog and pony, to reflect the type of act G.O.P members are giving us. MICHAEL GREENE Wichita, Kans...