In 1996, the deaths of 10 young people from the human form of mad cow disease forced the terrifying realization: Cattle products were in such universal use in food, pharmaceuticals and cosmetics that 59 million Britons had potentially been exposed to an incurable, mind-rotting disease.
I would tell people that I was studying the history of psychotherapy with schizophrenics, and they would give me a bewildered look and ask: "Is there one?" I was finally forced to the realization that the only way to get this idea taken seriously was to bring back the person who had embodied it most vividly.
Employers, they said, will be forced into the realization that with a looming labor shortage coming, they won't be able to afford to ignore dynamic, experienced and creative older workers.
The appearance of this book in 1944 is most timely, for the tremendous demands of the great conflict in which we are now engaged are driving home, with increasing force, the realization that the only way to prevent wars is to be prepared for them.
Events like this force the realization upon us that everything, even life, is transient and fleeting.
In the end, this experience forced a realization about the true nature of the market economy: it doesn't matter what it is that one sells, as long as there is another to buy it and the reasons they buy it are meaningless.
It is not only Facebook who has come to the realization that forcing the stream on people forces them to communicate more broadly.
It was Kenya's Mau Mau movement that forced Britain to the realization that something had to be done about the African nationalists, but it was inclined to go slow in Kenya.
The fact that top Asian universities are being held in higher esteem is both a reflection on their success in preparing students for the global work force and the realization among employers that students trained in Asia are better equipped to work there.
