Word: heeding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...would be well worth the while of the members of Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) to heed the warning of the poet now dead two millenia. The traditional party of Mexico for the past six decades, the PRI is proving too rigid in its effort to maintain political power in this month's presidential elections...
...appropriations by $200 billion to $300 billion below the amounts it had planned to spend. A $300 billion cut is roughly equivalent to the current year's total military outlays, from missiles to mouthwash, battleships to boots. And that amount is the optimistic estimate. It assumes that Congress will heed Carlucci's request to increase the Pentagon's budget each year by a steady 2% above the rate of inflation. While George Bush supports this idea, Dukakis talks of holding defense appropriations even with the rate of price increases...
...Manufacturers of major appliances, beware! Purveyors of pots and pans, pay heed! Home cooking may be on the verge of obsolescence. Long the gleaming altar of the household, the great American kitchen could soon resemble a deserted mining town in Colorado. Any minute now, the tumbleweed may roll...
...metropolis, once heralded as "the gateway to America," but life goes on in stunning profusion. Garcia Marquez generously populates a place "where everything was known, and where many things were known even before they happened, above all if they concerned the rich." But the constant gossip actually pays little heed to class distinctions. Whatever their status, the author's characters energetically play their parts in the human comedy. They are born to die. Hearts are enchanted, broken and sometimes put back together again. Wisdom accrues to those who have grown too old to profit by its possession. This novel...
While the permit system solves some of the parking problems, it makes life difficult for Harvard car owners, because most of them are not entitled to parking permits and do not heed Cambridge's elaborate parking rules...