Word: obey
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...more than $50 in a three-month period is the taxes and the blizzard of paperwork that also come through the door. So stringent are the legal requirements that the Internal Revenue Service estimates that no more than one-quarter of American families with household help bother to obey the law -- and that assessment is probably generous...
Perplexed parents who want to obey all the laws can always turn to professional nanny agencies. "All my families sign a contract that says they will take full responsibility for paying taxes just as the law requires," says Marianna Bagge, director of the Denver-based National Academy of Nannies. "I have turned down families who are not willing to comply." Bagge trains up to 70 nannies a year, and their services aren't cheap. The graduates, who are all U.S. citizens, typically earn from $1,200 to $1,500 a month to start, and the academy collects a one-time...
Some of the callers last week reminded the lawmakers that citizens are required to obey even the laws that they disagree with, or are inconvenient, or are hard to enforce. The anger reflected an impatience with the notion that this generation can pick and choose which rules are worth obeying. "We've excused all the hippie crimes," says Sheila Bihary, a 45-year-old San Francisco lawyer. "Now we've got the yuppie crimes, but these are the same people who used to be hippies...
...Saddam's overthrow, as Bush insisted, the current military options are unpromising. Saddam shrugs off small attacks, and larger ones threaten to blow up the gulf coalition and the Security Council consensus. If, on the other hand, the policy Clinton chooses < is to force Saddam to obey all the U.N. orders, the Administration will want to consider what methods might better achieve that...
...makes no difference to him if Michigan's elected representatives turn him into an outlaw. "He has told me that even if this does become a law, he would violate it," says Fieger. The problem is that once zealots claim the right to choose which laws they'll obey, all the underlying trust that permits professionals, and especially doctors, to function disappears...