Word: heeds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Faculty legislation centered on the placement of students on the Department's executive board. Such a step, Rosovsky said, "went beyond traditional academic guidelines." The resolution adopted by the Faculty differed from the Rosovsky report not only by giving students voting power on faculty appointments; the Faculty failed to heed the Rosovsky report's advice that the new Afro Department be set up to supervise combined majors...
...nation's fuel short age. The legislators last week tacked a "sense of Congress" resolution onto an oil allotment bill, urging states to lower speed limits on federal aid roads by 10 m.p.h. or to 55 m.p.h., whichever works out higher. The resolution, which each state can heed or disregard as it chooses, is based on the desperate but indubitable logic that cars burn up less fuel at middle-range speeds. The Administration's energy experts, who are flat-out in favor of the resolution, claim that a car driven at 60 m.p.h. instead of 70 will consume...
...President's economic advisers have held an inordinate number of meetings with Nixon lately, and even early last week some were depressed by a feeling that they could not get his attention. One recently complained that the President seemed "obviously weary" and too "preoccupied" to pay much heed. Even at week's end, though Nixon seemed to have realized the need for action, there remained a question of whether he would back any new policy with the personal push required to give it credibility...
President Nixon admitted that he had ignored "staff warning signals" of Watergate cover-up attempts. "With hindsight, it is apparent that I should have given more heed to warning signals I received along the way about the coverup," he said in a statement on Tuesday...
There are probably people in the Office of Government and Community Affairs who wish that Saundra Graham would heed the old adage, "Never look a gift horse in the mouth...