Word: heeding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...surgeons were truly impersonal (or, one might say, truly neutral) they would not heed the calls of distress from suffering humanity when they themselves were otherwise engaged in watching the ticker, or playing bridge, or writing thoughtful treatises on the insanity of their fellow men. They would not go to the considerable trouble and risk of using their knives to remove the malignant growths in the body of civilization. They would always find comfortable refuge behind the question, "Am I my brother's keeper...
...voracious demand for oil increasingly outstripped new sources of supply in recent years, an energy crisis crept up on the world with fateful inevitability. Yet, despite spreading signs of scarcity, most government leaders in the U.S., Europe and Japan paid little heed to calls from oilmen for urgent measures to expand energy resources and curb waste. Instead, they chose to believe that there was time to formulate some painless strategy to avert a genuine global emergency...
...rain pours down relentlessly, and the guillotine, disused for a blessed day, stands shrouded in black as the carriage rolls past it. Inside, Georges Danton, self-absorbed as usual, pays scant heed to the instrument with which in a matter of weeks he will find more intimate acquaintance. On this same grim morning in the winter of 1793-94, Maximilien Robespierre, whose health (and humanity) has been virtually consumed by the revolutionary fever that has burned within his puritanical soul for a lifetime, reluctantly awakens. He knows that with the return to Paris of Danton, once a colleague in revolution...
Pinochet has shown no inclination to heed any such call. His government reacted to the first demonstrations by jailing Rodolfo Seguel, 29, head of the 23,000-member National Confederation of Copper Workers and a key organizer of the initial protests. It also imprisoned 29 other union leaders for periods ranging from one to ten days, and dispatched troops to take over or patrol the copper mines. Last week the government instructed the press not to write any stories about preparations for the protest, and forbade reporters from moving around Santiago during the curfew...
...vote was a bitter blow to proponents of the death penalty, who had counted on the Conservatives, with their new 144-seat majority in Parliament, to heed the sentiment for a crackdown on violent crime. The vote was "free," meaning that party discipline was not invoked to influence the decisions of individual members. While Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and eight Cabinet colleagues supported a motion calling for the hanging of terrorist killers, eight others voted against...