Word: heed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their way and the Pentagon budget is cut by $5 billion to $10 billion, the slash will hardly make a sliver's worth of difference in a projected deficit of $150 billion. The Defense Secretary has grown so protective of his budget domain that he adamantly refuses to heed requests from Congress to suggest parings. "I don't want to participate in a process of that kind," Weinberger says flatly. "I don't have cuts to propose...
There was one small but telling sign last week that Mexico's new President intends to take that promise seriously. When De la Madrid set off from his home for the inauguration ceremony, he instructed his chauffeur to heed all the stop signs...
...make something out of the ordinary. I beg you, do not neglect this Macbeth. I need an excellent chorus. Pay attention also to the stage machinery. I am sure that you will mount all the rest with that splendor that so distinguishes you and that you will pay no heed to economy...
...Michel, the President's point man in Congress, to Reaganomics and blamed him for not changing Reagan's mind on the Soviet pipeline sanctions, which are unpopular in an area where some pipeline equipment would have been made. But this mostly Republican district still seems inclined to heed the President's plea for patience and not add Michel's name to Peoria's list of 20,000 unemployed...
...Graham, states like Florida are "the proper laboratory for the federal system." He adds that the Democratic Party, "which has sort of exhausted its idea pool," would do well to heed that lesson. The party could re-establish itself, he is convinced, by articulating a new cooperative, rather than adversary relationship among government, labor and business. Says Graham: "Government at the state level has tried to bring about that new relationship in order to develop economically. It has worked...