Word: obey
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Marks started to investigate, as did the Philadelphia Inquirer. Since the election, the Inquirer has found 333 Stinson voters who did not obey the law that restricts absentee balloting to those physically unable to get to the polls. Many of the fraudulent ballots were cast by Puerto Rican natives who say they were duped by people offering absentee ballots as "una nueva forma de votar" -- a new way to vote. "She said, 'Sign. I'll do the rest,' " recalls Carmen Silva, 55. "I signed. I didn't know for who or what." Others were encouraged to sign for members...
...road to any lasting peace will surely be bumpy and bloodstained. As the I.R.A. was considering London's demand for a permanent cease-fire as a precondition to formal talks, Republican operatives continued their bombing and assassination campaign. Even if the I.R.A. calls off its gunmen -- and they obey -- there is no guarantee that the extremists on the other side will stop fighting. Protestant paramilitary units, dedicated to keeping Northern Ireland in the United Kingdom, have become increasingly active. In the past two years, they killed more people in Northern Ireland than did the I.R.A. Says Peter Robinson, a hard...
Congressman David Obey, a Wisconsin Democrat, burbled, "Gridlock is what you have when the traffic isn't moving. The traffic is now moving, baby, and we're moving some pretty big trucks." Senate minority leader Bob Dole claimed a share of the credit for his party, bragging that "Republicans made a difference...
...novels she proceeded to write constitute provisional and consummately artful answers to these questions. Sula (1973) examines the stormy friendship of two black women and the opposing imperatives to obey or to rebel against the mores of their beleaguered community. Song of Solomon (1977), her only novel with a male protagonist, proved a critical and commercial breakthrough for Morrison; the phantasmagoric saga of a black man in mystical pursuit of his past won the author rapturous praise and a greatly enlarged circle of readers...
Boutros Boutros-Ghali is justifiably angry. Another U.N. contingent, reportedly Saudi, was similarly insubordinate. If the troops don't obey the orders of the U.N. commander, then the U.N. force dissolves overnight. But there is no cure for this dilemma, because at its heart lies the U.N. fiction. Its soldiers wear the same colored hats, but they have differently colored , allegiances. When ordered into danger, they will always phone home. How are we going to abolish the allegiance soldiers feel to their flag and country? And how are we going to prevent governments from exercising sovereign control over their...