Word: obey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...touch of masochism. Purse: $65,600 annual salary; partially furnished mansion on Embassy Row in Washington, D.C.; presidency of the U.S. Senate; substantial perquisites. Qualifications: 35-year-olds and above; a natural-born citizen; proven endurance at giving and listening to speeches; ability to respond to the whip and obey sometimes demeaning commands. Limitations: Track may be shifted, entry fees forfeited, and a new field named pending outcome of big stakes races in New Hampshire, Florida, Wisconsin and California in early 1976. Postpositions, names of entries and early-line odds...
...BANTUSTAN SYSTEM is maintained by the pass laws, which give the government full control over the movement of the African laborers. Africans who cause too much trouble outside the homeland can simply be "endorsed" out of white areas, and they have no choice but to obey. Vorster told Bantustan chiefs who objected last year to the pass laws that "principle" of the pass law is not negotiable, for they are the most effective method the government has to keep African unrest sub-dued. About 600,000 blacks are now prosecuted annually under the pass laws, receiving ten days...
...asked for a clean slate: forget the past, make new rules, and a penitent Lockheed would obey along with the rest. But his rationales seemed perilously close to royal assertions of immunity. Senator Proxmire, in his August 25 closing statement to the Banking Committee expressed the same fear...
...Administration must soon make up its mind. Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz last week renewed a request to all U.S. grain exporters to refrain from negotiating any more sales to Moscow until further notice. (The Administration has no statutory authority to order such a suspension, but grain-export companies obey Washington's wishes.) The notice is not likely to come until after the bulk of the U.S. harvest is reaped and counted in September. Butz emphasized that "we do want to sell more to the Soviet Union" and said that if current U.S. crop forecasts prove correct, "it will...
...after criticism of its demand that all journalists from abroad sign away their freedom to report events by pledging to "comply" with strait-jacket censorship guidelines. Reporters were instead handed an alternative pledge that acknowledged their receipt of the guidelines but did not contain any flat-out promise to obey them. A debate quickly followed over whether the distinction in phrasing marked a genuine retreat by Mrs. Gandhi's government from censorship or was a subtle way of allowing foreign journalists to sign, save face but still remain under rigid controls...