Word: knowingly
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...would call what is going on in the art mart today "cultural exploitation" rather than a trend of collecting. Did you know that the U.S. ranks as the No. 1 exploiter of primitive art? Primitive art is the hottest thing on the market right now, and your article barely mentions...
...surprised that the Gablers allow the American Revolution to be taught. Do they want impressionable kids to get the idea that a bunch of hotheads who think they know better than their rightful ruler are good guys...
...attempting to organize Stevens labor, Sutton said, "you never know whether you're going to be shot in the chest or bitten by dogs. You can't give up just because of threats on your life...
Relationships sometimes flower. Some callers may decide to drop in for continuous in person counselling. Others make a habit of calling, becoming regulars that almost everyone comes to know eventually, like lonely old women who just want someone to talk to and find the Place volunteers friendly, open, and interesting. Or the young housewife with kids and responsibilities whose own life got lost in everyone else's until she had a chat with one of the counsellors one day and decided to place the children in day care part of the time so she could pursue her own interests...
...decade ended. Translation: they predicted that the present would persist into the future. Says Boris Pushkarev, vice president of New York's Regional Plan Association: "It's easy to continue trend lines. It's hard to predict changes in trends." Translation: it is hard to know what is going to happen. The '70s were especially hard, according to Peter Schwartz, head of S.R.I, (formerly Stanford Research Institute) International Futures Group, because they featured so many "low probability events." Translation: forecasters, just like ordinary people, are finding out that life is full of surprises...