Word: obey
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...economic war. The Russian parliament last week passed a law placing all property in Russian territory, except that belonging to the Soviet military or the KGB, under its control. Gorbachev had earlier got the Supreme Soviet to grant him power to fire the heads of businesses that refuse to obey orders from the central government. It remains to be seen which jurisdiction can make its claims stick...
Atten-shun! There will be no sex in dormitories. That's an order at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado, and for many of the school's 4,410 cadets, 553 of whom are women, it is one of the toughest to obey. But rarely has the rule been breached as flagrantly as in a case revealed last week: a sexual encounter between a male and a female cadet, conducted under the watchful eyes of six male classmates hiding in a dorm closet. The romp landed the woman, who became distraught upon learning how public the performance had been...
Here thou, great Anna! Whom three realms obey...
...left, David Obey of Wisconsin and other liberals cobbled together an alternative budget proposal, hoping to get a separate vote. "The President's negotiating team insisted on protecting the superrich," said Obey. "This agreement simply continues the march that was started in 1981 when budget and tax changes tripled America's deficits and dropped the word fairness from the vocabulary of the Federal Government." The Obey faction proposed sharper cuts in defense spending and higher income tax rates for those with incomes over...
...attempt was under way. According to that scenario, long touted by the military underground, sympathetic "bloodless" revolts would spring up in Luzon and elsewhere in the country, eventually inducing soldiers in and around Manila -- the fence-sitters of previous uprisings -- to side with the rebels simply by refusing to obey orders from generals loyal to President Corazon Aquino...