Word: obey
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...acquainted with the Massachusetts Legislature, welcome to the world of blatant patronage, leadership hegemony, legislative "feeding frenzies," and punishment for representatives and senators who do not obey their leaders...
...supposed to be having fun," snaps her companion, a clone. In razor-crease jeans and stiletto heels they stamp into the ladies' room, flounce around the corner past the polished washbasins and disappear into the two long rows of toilet stalls. They are the kind of girls who obey their mothers' warnings never to sit on strange toilet seats. Attendants have to nip in after that type, making sure the next woman will have no unpleasant surprises. That is the sort of job specification that made Donna Summer's song about a ladies' room attendant...
Although Turkle suggests that computers have positive qualities-they teach math to the unscientific, for instance-addiction to them is a way to avoid human emotion. Jarish, 12, is a loner who relentlessly plays video games because, unlike people, they obey strict rules. "You walk out of the arcade," he says, "and it's ... nothing that you can control." Arthur, 34, bought a computer to speed up his architectural business, but spends hours at the console, "poking" and "peeking" into programs, an experience he likens to a sexual kick. Says he: "Sometimes I feel guilty when...
Stern has mailed copies of his ads to every Senator and Congressman to put them on notice that their campaign finances might be similarly scrutinized. When Democratic Congressman David Obey of Wisconsin received his packet, he shot back a sizzling letter decrying the tactic as "immoral." Stern counters that every ad is meticulously documented and published only after a Senator or Congressman has been offered a chance to tell his side of the story. When Democrat Jeff Bingaman of New Mexico was asked why he did not return a $10,000 gift from the American Medical Association...
...military-spending increases, but the debt racked up during his short tenure is fast approaching that of all previous Administrations combined. For a President to ask for a constitutional amendment to require him to do something he has not yet been willing to do, argues Democratic Congressman David Obey of Wisconsin, "is just another manifestation of hypocrisy...