Word: obey
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...virus is inserted into the aggressor's telephone-switching stations, causing widespread failure of the phone system. Next, computer logic bombs, set to activate at predetermined times, destroy the electronic routers that control rail lines and military convoys, thus misrouting boxcars and causing traffic jams. Meanwhile, enemy field officers obey the orders they receive over their radios, unaware the commands are phony. Their troops are rendered ineffective as they scatter through the desert. U.S. planes, specially outfitted for psychological operations, then jam the enemy's TV broadcasts with propaganda messages that turn the populace against its ruler. When the despot...
...victims of incest. States would have to continue using the money for abortions for women whose lives are in danger. Opponents said eliminating mandatory spending would, in short order, eliminate access toabortionsfor poor women -- and unconscionably so in cases of pregnancies after sexual assault. Said Rep. David Obey (D-Wis.): "Some of us need lectures on the kinds of anguish individual women go through when they are victims of something as heinous as rape or incest...
...back their votes with money. And because the tax and spending committees still must deliver large net savings, the Republicans' side deals mean that the burden of chopping the deficit is growing heavier on those Americans who have little influence on the party. Republicans, says Representative David Obey of Wisconsin, the ranking Democrat on the Appropriations Committee, "are very good at taking on the poor and the lame, but not very good at taking on the muscle guys...
...lasting return to the New Democrat side of his persona, not just another temporary detour. The President seems convinced that, whatever the short-term cost, voters will reward him for being on the right side of the historic debate on balancing the budget. Others, like Representative David Obey, a Wisconsin Democrat, suspect he will eventually waver. Says Obey: "Most of us learned some time ago that if you don't like the President's position on a particular issue, you simply need to wait a few weeks." If nothing else, Clinton may gain just by proving skeptics like Obey wrong...
...often said that in our time, everyvalley cries out for its own independence or willeven fight for it. Many nations, or parts of themat least, are struggling against moderncivilization or its main proponents for the rightto worship their ancient gods and obey the ancientdivine injunctions. They carry on their struggleusing weapons provided by the very civilizationsthey oppose. They employ radar, computers, lasers,never gases and perhaps, in the future, evennuclear weapons--all products of the world theychallenge--to help defend their ancient heritageagainst the erosions of modern civilization. Incontrast with these technological inventions,other products of their civilization--likedemocracy...