Word: heeding
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...were intoxicated at the time, railroad workers are forbidden to work under the influence of drugs or alcohol. The National Transportation Safety Board now recommends that all trains operating between Washington and Boston be equipped with automatic braking devices that would stop a train even if engineers did not heed track signals...
...that merged to cross the Gunpowder River bridge north of Baltimore. Amtrak's twelve-car Washington-to- Boston Colonial, carrying 616 passengers, was speeding along at 105 m.p.h. or more. A Conrail train, consisting of three engines, was headed for Harrisburg, Pa. After the Conrail engineer apparently failed to heed a "distant signal" alerting him to slow down, he was unable to respond to a second stop signal and slid directly into the path of the onrushing Amtrak. The passenger train slammed into the rearmost Conrail engine, which exploded. The Amtrak engine caught fire and flipped on its side into...
...academy's two-year study found no convincing evidence that contraceptives promote teen sex; nor are eager teenagers likely to heed advice to remain celibate. Predictably, the report was praised by the Planned Parenthood Federation of America but attacked by religious groups. Said Richard Doerflinger of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops: "They're saying there's no way to educate kids to live better. They're proposing a counsel of despair...
When the U.S. government refused to heed a World Court decision condemning U.S.-sponsored acts attempting to over-throw the legally elected Sandinista government in Nicaragua--including the CIA mining of harbors there--it was the first time in 30 years such international authority had been refected...
Parents, be wise and heed this advice: watch how your children spend their free time, because playful pursuits have a way of shaping adult occupations. Take Gary Larson. As a youngster growing up in Tacoma, Larson collected lizards, snakes, frogs, salamanders and one monkey. Aided by his older brother, he regularly flooded the backyard to create swamps. Once, for a change of pace, the Larson boys hauled sand into the basement and built a miniature Mojave complete with horned toads. Throughout it all, Larson's parents remained remarkably serene, even that day when Dad, a car salesman, came home...