Word: heed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there are now 357 divorces for every 1,000 marriages, it is little wonder that children do not necessarily heed their parents' advice or consider marriage their ultimate goal. "There's a healthy disrespect for the façade of respectability behind which Albee-like emotional torrents roll on," says Yale Chaplain William Sloane Coffin...
Pompidou complained that his neighbors had paid insufficient heed to France's proposals for a common industrial policy and a coordinated approach to developing countries. But his main peeve seemed to be a lack of urgency that Europe should "find her place, her personality, her influence in the world again." Part of the remedy, Pompidou's spokesman later emphasized, would be the establishment of a Common Market political capital in non-NATO Paris-far from Brussels, which is top-heavy with economists and in French eyes tainted with American influence. "If this is not a crisis," the spokesman...
...rage: "Age and education give you the authority, citizenship the responsibility, to rage against the mediocrity and injustice in your society, more especially in yourself. Heed Dylan Thomas: 'Do not go gentle into that good night . . ./ Rage, rage against the dying of the light...
...sanitationmen follow DeLury's lead for, over 37 years, they have come to trust him; they know he will secure the best possible deal for them. The NYUSA is a "voluntary membership association" and yet all 11,333 sanitation workers belong. Even when there is some uncertainty, the members heed DeLury's advice. The best example of this faith is the NYUSA's support of Lindsay during his re-election campaign...
Ethnic Factors. Heed advice from a woman doctor? Many said no. Twenty percent, which Engleman calls "a significant number," would not take drugs prescribed by a woman, and 48% said that they would seriously question a woman's recommendation to enter a hospital for treatment or tests. The study also turned up some contrasts in attitudes that seem to be linked to educational, ethnic and age factors. Among those with less than an eighth-grade education, 85% preferred a male doctor, compared with 73% among the college-educated. One notable disparity: 54% of the Puerto Rican patients thought women...