One of the best-known was Thomas Spiegel, the security-conscious former chief executive of the Columbia Savings and Loan Association, which was a big buyer of Drexel-backed junk bonds.
He encourages the green-conscious former readers among us to substitute the classics of the canon for skeet during weekend shooting practice (this bullet's for you, Jane Austen!), and notes that smearing a copy of "Lassie" with lard will coerce your pooch to down that dog-eared copy (at least someone is still gulping up literature).
The tone-deafness of that statement rivals the clueless response of a certain clothes-conscious former International Arabian Horse Association commissioner turned FEMA head.
Britain and France are deeply conscious of being former world powers.
The technology for breeding them comes from many sources, ranging from food-security-conscious Israel to former Peace Corps volunteers who saw how the fish could be thrown into stagnant, algae-infested ponds in developing countries and miraculously eat up all that algae and turn it into protein.
To those who knew him in Texas, Cherno Njie was a pillar of the community: a well-educated senior government worker turned rich and socially conscious property developer, a former school board member and a supporter of human rights and political progress in Africa.
He is the former Editorial Director of Conscious Enlightenment Publishing (Conscious Choice, Common Ground, Whole Life Times, and Seattle's Conscious Choice), the founder and publisher of Newtopia Magazine, former head writer for the nationally syndicated radio show "Reality Checks with Harrison," former Senior Staff Writer for The Next American City, and a Contributing Editor for Worldchanging.
Cerreti described her former witness as conscious of what she had given up.
The poor coverage was not a result of mistakes or oversights, The Herald-Leader concluded, but a conscious strategy by the papers' former managers "to play down the movement" in hopes that it would wither away.
Mr. Chen "is having difficulty breathing and is complaining of pain on the left side of his chest," Mr. Lee said, adding that the former president was conscious when taken to the hospital.
It was the most recent confirmation that the former leader is conscious and responsive, after court documents from the Mandela family a week ago said death was "impending".
