Word: heeding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...family. That in turn is affecting the marketplace. By the year 2000, according to a White House-sponsored conference on aging, Americans 55 or older will have twice the discretionary income of those between 18 and 34, and the leaders of some large corporations are starting to pay heed. "It's very important for us to go where the purchasing power is," says Michael H. Jordan, chairman and CEO of Westinghouse/CBS, whose CBS unit airs hits like Touched by an Angel (featuring a helpful celestial spirit) that have made it the top network with viewers 55 or older. "We ought...
Fortunately, the University did not heed the protests of these alumni, who (unsuccessfully) took their case to the courts of law and to the media: The New York Times and The Boston Globe to name but two. Rather, the University held firm, pursuing its plans to turn the stale Union into a working academic facility...
...many fear the Court may not heed these pleas. Recent court cases and new state laws nationwide have challenged affirmative action and with it the ability of colleges and universities to use race as a criteria in admissions...
Though only well-paid women, like those in her survey, may be able to heed McKenna's advice to trade some income for more time, all working men and women can benefit from her suggestions to learn how to fail, say no to bosses and assignments, and separate who you are from what you do. Such prescriptions for redefining worth and success are not abundantly simple, but they are abundantly sane...
There was, of course, no one in Mars' Ares Vallis floodplain to mark the moment when NASA's 3-ft.-tall Pathfinder spacecraft dropped into the soil of the long-dry valley. But there was a planet more than 100 million miles away filled with people who were paying heed when it landed, appropriately enough, on July 4. For the first time in 21 years, a machine shot from Earth once again stirred up the Martian dust. More important, for the first time ever, it was going to be able to keep stirring it up well after it landed. Curled...