Word: obeying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Whether or not OPEC can achieve an agreement, it appeared last week that the group has lost whatever control it had over world oil markets. As the London Times proclaimed, "OPEC has no clothes." The mighty ministers who once ruled the market now have no choice but to obey...
...Western writing since antiquity, this simplified italic is written with a broad-edged pen, yielding a pleasing alternation of thick and thin lines, depending on the angle of the stroke. It is also easy to write because it follows the natural movement of the wrist. The writer need only obey the pen to create an even rhythm and beautiful form...
...total number of eligible men who are in violation of the law, but that's way down from what it was before my bill became law. Those 25,000 are being advised by their peers, by their fellow students, by some college professors, even some college presidents, not to obey the law, that the law will never by enforced, and that nothing will ever happen to them. Well, that's not going to happen because not only are they going to be deprived under my bill of certain benefits that are granted to them, but the federal government is going...
...sermon to 500,000 in Managua's vast Plaza 19 de Julio, the Pope left little doubt about where he stood in the church-state dispute. As a poster gallery of Nicaraguan revolutionary heroes kept silent watch, John Paul exhorted priests to obey their bishops and to preserve the unity of the church. It was a clear show of support for Archbishop Obando y Bravo. In tones that must have echoed strangely from the same platform Fidel Castro had once used to praise the Sandinistas, the Pope condemned the "popular church," a grassroots movement in Nicaragua committed to revolution...
...your Essay on scofflaws [Jan. 24]: most people obey laws not because they fear the penalty but because they believe the laws to be good and necessary. Rules that are not widely perceived as essential tend to be ignored. This was the case with Prohibition; it may also be true of the 55-m.p.h. speed limit. If many motorists are ignoring the speed limit, they may be voting with their right foot...