Word: heeds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ballots were counted: Britain's Foreign Secretary, Dr. David Owen, and Washington's Ambassador to the United Nations, Andrew Young. Their mission was to present Smith with a new Anglo-American proposal for a Rhodesian settlement-and from the beginning they had little hope that he would heed...
...each week with Brzezinski and Vance, and he is highly regarded in the White House, says one official there, as "a lot more than just a spokesman for the generals and the military-industrial complex." The outspoken Young has his own special relationship with the President, who pays close heed to his opinions and has no regrets about the way Young has publicly expressed them. Warnke's incisive views on arms control have far more impact than has been usual for an arms negotiator...
...more liberal Congress is on the verge of passing three bills that could exceed his spending plans by $3.5 billion-and he may well veto one or more of them. Paying no heed to the President's protest that various dams, canals and irrigation projects are too costly and environmentally damaging, the House restored 17 of the 18 projects on his final hit list; the Senate is expected to restore more than half. The White House seems to be virtually itching to veto the wasteful measure when it reaches Carter's desk. Says a presidential aide: "There...
...University's Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR) offered the Harvard Corporation an unprecedented number of anti-management recommendations on shareholding issues this year, ranging from investment in South Africa to the Arab boycott. But in several key instances, the Corporation refused to heed the ACSR's advice and vote against the management of companies like Mobil, Gulf Oil, General Electric and Manufacturers Hanover...
...speech, Carter was saying that "we need a wider set of relationships in a world in which traditional concerns of war and peace are now being matched by new problems of social justice and development." Critics of the President's policies complained that he is not paying enough heed to the North-South question, that he is not sufficiently committed to working with the industrial democracies, that he is too preoccupied with the human rights issue. Other detractors were alarmed that the Carter Administration has almost totally ignored China-an omission that Brzezinski insists will soon be corrected. Still...