Word: heeding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...heard of it in passing. A Black boy killed. An act of retribution: a Jewish man killed. New York. Crown Heights: yes, the crown, yes, the height of enmity between the races. I paid little heed, regarding it simply as another conflagration in the cauldron of American society where race, in all its surliness, burns the hottest in the belly of the pot, DuBois was right--the problem of the color line indeed...
Despite inflation of 1,000% this year, not everyone cared to take heed of Gaidar's advice. In private trading in Moscow, single vouchers were reportedly fetching anywhere from 500 to 50,000 rubles. Though conservative opponents called the program "deeply depraved" and have tried unsuccessfully to derail it in parliament, the government pressed on, vowing that every citizen will have received a voucher by Dec. 31. By then perhaps, Russians will have figured out whether they should buy, sell or hold...
...that Harvard didn't heed his advice at the time. Recent history has shown that sanctions and divestment crippled the South African economy so vastly that the government had to move toward democratization. Harvard's partial divestment only hindered that process...
...would monitor the candidates to assess how well they toe the policy lines he has drawn. If Bush and Clinton both satisfy him -- an unlikely prospect -- Perot would stand down. If only one does, he might endorse that candidate. If they both fail his test, he implied, he might heed the calls from remaining fans to compete...
...moral: Never believe in the fairy tales movie people create. They will buoy your spirit and, with the flick of a headline, crush it. Another moral: Don't always heed what you read. The tabloid newspapers, especially in New York City, have feasted on this fracas, one-upping each other daily in the body count of revoltin' developments. With all the soiled laundry of unverified allegations, the facts are hard to determine, let alone the truth. Every journalist is, perforce, a garbologist...