Word: heed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...record, marked by a $20 billion foreign debt and severely declining growth in 1979. To compound his humiliation, the Party Leader was forced in a nationally televised speech to praise "those comrades who perceived earlier the growing irregularities and tried to counteract them, and whose voice we did not heed in time." Though there was no hard evidence, Warsaw officials indicated that on two occasions prior to the Central Committee meeting, Gierek had met with some Soviet leaders...
...unpaid volunteers (15 of them white) had little more than the leverage of local publicity to apply to the problem. It too failed to respond adequately. Similarly the 14 officers of the Metro Dade Police Community Service (ten of them white) proved either unable or unwilling to heed the black warnings. Admitted Dade County Community Programs Supervisor Lonnie Lawrence: "We didn't gauge the depth of the feeling. People were boiling...
...country meanwhile continues to struggle with an economic slump that is sure to drive Detroit's depression still deeper. Durable goods orders dropped a steep 4.2% in April, and retail sales declined 1.2%. Spokesman Jody Powell said President Carter now believes that Americans no longer need to heed his imprecation against credit card use and urged them to begin spending more freely again...
Says DeBakey: "Until society restores literacy to a position of esteem, there is no motivation for young people to learn to read and write." Aptly enough, she advises doctors to heed the words of Alexander Pope: "Words are like leaves; and where they most abound/ Much fruit of sense is rarely found...
...Times exposé generated a prompt flurry of denials. ABC said it had paid heed to Martin's questioning, conducted an internal investigation and found no evidence of wrongdoing. The network submitted its conclusions to the Los Angeles County district attorney. Spelling and Goldberg, in a joint statement, denied the fraud: "We are stunned and outraged by the allegations." Wagner, vacationing with his wife in France, said the news of the investigation was "a total surprise...