Word: heed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Among those paying no heed are the other Democratic candidates, most noisily Iowa Senator Tom Harkin, whose old-time Democratic religion is based on a "soak the rich" populism that may go down well in party primaries but isn't likely to prevail in a general election. In declaring his candidacy last week, Nebraska Senator Bob Kerrey spoke grandly of "investing in our nation, spurring its growth and corralling the deficit." Their reach seemed faintly reminiscent of Ronald Reagan's 1980 vow to lower taxes, boost defense and reduce the deficit -- all at the same time...
This has meant that urban areas, which tend to follow natural forms and not surveyors' lines, pay no heed to political divisions (except when those lines correspond to major policy divisions like tax rates or school districts). The "Tri-State," "Tri-County," or Greater Whatever Area are where we live; the Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area, a balkanized netherworld of politics. Even though the area is an organic whole, even though suburbs and cities need each other, no one can do anything in more than one principality at a time...
POINT? As a mere word (as that is all it is these days) of advice to all you bright-eyed freshperchildren, take heed for there are countless brigades of evil (pseudo-) linguists and (anti-) academicians...
Tito's mastery at playing off East against West left him free to quash uppity subjects at home. Now that the East is out of the game, his successors must heed remonstrations from Bonn and Brussels. Among other things, that's where the money is. And Belgrade, like Moscow, is desperate for financial help...
...Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front, an amalgam of four rebel groups, advanced to within eight miles of Addis Ababa, but then seemed to heed pleas from Western diplomats not to enter the city pending negotiations scheduled for this week in London on forming a new government. The situation might have been decidedly more tragic had Mengistu not agreed to leave. Though the civil war between his army and the rebels had turned decisively against him, for months the Ethiopian leader had resisted pressure to step down. Only after Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe sent a personal note offering asylum...