Word: heed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...programs that train scientists for corporate research and development, mainly involving military contracts. Since 1945, only two per cent of state and corporate money has been given to social sciences, apparently in the belief that studying different political and social systems might make future technical workers too critical to heed thoughtlessly commands to maximize kill densities for Honeywell's latest "anti-personnel" weapon or Dow Chemical's napalm account...
...children do not start asking questions about color by age four or five, parents should take heed. The authors advise: "It is probably best to think about what you are doing to turn off your child's interest in the question...
...almost exactly 25 years ago, in May 1950, that TIME ran its first cover story on the fighting in Viet Nam. The face on the magazine's cover then was that of the country's embattled Emperor Bao Dai; the issue was whether the U.S. should heed appeals for American assistance in the French struggle against Viet Minh insurgents. In the quarter-century since then, events have compelled cover treatment of the seemingly endless Indochina conflict no fewer than 64 times. Whether or not some sort of final resolution of war is at last at hand, the anonymous...
...almost universally conceded that the American intervention in Viet Nam was a mistake-a mistake that involved four Presidents, many of the nation's top statesmen. Once they had followed the French into the wrong war for the wrong reasons, they failed to heed the evidence that-short of the notorious suggestion to bomb the country back into the Stone Age-the Viet Nam War could never be "won" in the traditional sense. At fault perhaps was an American inability to accept defeat, or a hypnotic preoccupation with the models of previous, simpler wars. There was no precedent...
...were fewer than 40 guests. Because of fears for the country's economic stability, Portugal's 2 million workers abroad have cut back sharply on the funds they customarily send home. In a television broadcast last week, Premier Gonçalves exhorted migrant workers to pay no heed "to the defamatory and reactionary campaigns of certain organs of information" and to come home and "verify that the country is happier than the sad Portugal you used to know...