Word: heed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Soviet Union. In California, campaigners for a bilateral freeze initiative, placed by petition on November's ballot, have an advertising budget of $1.2 million. Yet all the widely supported antinuclear initiatives are almost certain to be only symbolic outcries, since neither the House nor Senate is likely to heed the calls for an immediate nuclear freeze. In any case, Reagan is adamantly opposed; he believes such an arms control gambit would be a simplistic quick fix, one that would, moreover, only lock in a putative Soviet nuclear advantage...
Other subjects came up at the summit. The other six once again gently prodded the U.S. to pay more heed to the demands poor countries for a more equitable of the world's resources. Mitterrand, in his speech opening the summit, presented a vision of heavy investment in high technology lifting both industrial and undeveloped countries out of the economic slough toward higher standards of living. Said Mitterrand expansively: "Communications technologies will usher in a new form of civilization...
...Princeton debate panel president decided against wearing "either a toga or a tux to the finals." This last round is in grave Nassau Hall, where, the hosts claim, Princeton Students James Madison and Aaron Burr held forth, off-topic, 211 years ago. The Princetonians want the debaters to heed the chamber's cavernous propriety. "To waste this room on worn-out double-entendres would be sacrilege," says Bob West, '81, back for the tournament. Indeed, the puncturing blasphemies are scarce during the final round. (Only one wispy student, speaking from the floor and pointing to the room...
...doubtless doomed, way of being. Slowed, but not bowed, by age and grief, he is a farmer whose rhythms have been set by the wheel of the sun, the turn of the earth, a man who patiently accepts death as part of life's cycle and pays no heed whatever to the transitory cries of the far-off city streets...
Corporation members refused to comment on whether the body would heed the committee's non-binding advice but student members on the 12-person committee said it would be very difficult for Harvard's equivalent of a board of directors to ignore the unanimously supported recommendation...