Word: obey
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Administration strategists are keenly aware that if every committee in Congress is asked to approve reductions in its pet programs, the budget-cutting drive may bog down in a hopeless tangle. Said Democratic Congressman David Obey of Wisconsin: "The way this town works, a lot of the turkeys will be salvaged and useful programs will be gutted." Accordingly, Reagan's legislative aides tentatively decided last week to wrap almost all of the program into four superbills. They are: the tax bill; a "recision" bill ordering reductions of $13 billion in spending for the remainder of fiscal 1981, which ends...
...Marriages Between Zones Three, Four, and Five (1980), Lessing unveils a different terrain in her new universe. A queen and king from adjoining regions are commanded by the mysterious powers to marry and restore fertility to their kingdoms. They do not like each other. Their struggles to obey the order are comic, poignant and ultimately successful...
Uniformed Iranian guards came over to join the argument for our return. "They're murderers," they told the Pakistani officers. "They have killed scores of innocent people." The Pakistani checkpoint commander, under a hail of obscenities from the Iranians, calmly replied: "They have valid passports and visas. I obey and enforce the law. I am not here to bandy obscenities with you." Under the protection of the senior Pakistani officer in the region, Major Javid Afrouz, a humane and professional military man, we were protected until we could hire a truck for the ride to the city of Quetta...
...hostages for half an hour one day. Metrinko complained to him that the food consisted of "rice and grease" and that he was not allowed to exercise. Seyyed Ahmed ordered the guards to let the hostages go outside for regular exercise. Says Metrinko: "They didn't obey. In the next month and a half, we were only allowed outside three times...
Strictly speaking, the legal last word on such questions is the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974, and the Health, Education and Welfare guidelines based on it. All educational institutions receiving federal aid must obey the guidelines, which generally give a student and his parents access to his school file, but make third-party access to the collected information difficult. Harvard's stance on privacy is much more stringent, restricting access to records far more severely than the law requires...