Word: heed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gain its place in history, the Freund Committee will have to prove that a transfer of responsibility in the Federal judicial system will not isolate the Supreme Court from those submerged in prisons who presently expect that, if only for 15 seconds, the highest court in the land will heed their appeals...
American warplanes were already taking their toll in 1967. A ten-year-old kid, who guides a water buffalo plowing the rice fields, refuses to heed an air-raid warning, instead remaining with his animal. An anti-personnel bomb hits near him, killing the buffalo and tearing his shoulder to shreds with one of its sinister pellets. Greene shows him in a hospital, in screaming pain as his injury is being tended to. His agony, his tears, are a vivid reminder of the searing guilt no amount of post-war reparations could ever repay...
...show began to cash in on it. For example, the Kaiser Broadcasting chain, which owns rights to the show in Boston, Philadelphia, Cleveland, and Detroit, gave its own Star Trek conventions as part of its fall promotion campaign for the show. In addition, the chain is taking heed of fan complaints and suggestions: it owns the series unedited and in the same order as NBC did. (A common complaint is that callous station managers have butchered the reruns by editing or cutting vital parts in order to squeeze in more commercials...
...success of the strike depends on several variables. Although the Union has called on all members of the community to neither teach nor attend class, it is expected that different groups will heed the strike call in different degrees. The overwhelming majority of the Faculty will continue to teach. Although Faculty opinion about the Union and its demands ranges from sympathetic to haughtily remote. Faculty members share a common commitment to orderly process and an abhorrence of anything that interrupts their teaching and scholarship. A handful of liberal-to-left junior Faculty will call off class, but most will...
...Commission thus clearly locates the GSAS's center of power in the departments--not in the dean's office or the graduate student body. Dean Wilcox says that he has urged department chairmen not to fund students below their calculated need, but it seems unlikely that all chairmen will heed his advice. Many of them have already complained that the Kraus plan drains their "merit pool" to its functional limits...