Word: heed
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Whatever the disappointments California taxpayers may meet when Proposition 13 goes into effect, their overwhelming support of the measure sends a powerful message to Washington, and there is some evidence that Washington is beginning to take heed. In what a Capitol Hill observer calls "one of the legislative surprises of the year," Wisconsin's Republican Congressman William Steiger has mustered astonishing support for a proposal to cut the capital-gains tax from a maximum rate of 49% to 25%. Though the Administration dismisses it as a "fat cat" proposal, Steiger's measure has won endorsement from 61 Senators...
...detection, many weed farmers raise their plants on terrain owned by the government or the lumber companies. Rural police say they do not have the time or the money to chase after all the tiny plots in remote areas. Residents sympathize with the lawmen's plight and pay little heed to the modern-day bootleggers. Sighs former State Senator Lynn Newbry: "I suppose it's a similar situation to when alcohol was prohibited. You just can't get all the stills...
Representatives of several campus Third World groups linked minority struggles in the U.S. with the black nationalist movement in South Africa. They argued that Harvard should heed the demands of black nationalist leaders by supporting the withdrawal of all U.S. corporations from South Africa...
Athletic director Jack Reardon has thus far done a capable job in dealing with the various factions of Harvard's athletic community. But Reardon's job does not leave him time to accurately discern the diversity of student opinion on athletics at Harvard. Reardon should heed the events at Penn and move beyond the boundaries of his position to establish an innovative system...
Such clubhouse connections make Madigan an object of contempt among many peers, who, nonetheless, would do well to heed him. "John's criticism is first-rate," says John Calloway, news director of the local public television station, "but the question is whether his coziness destroys his credibility elsewhere...