Word: obeying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Debate on the budget proposals opened in the House with Democrat Obey trying a classic parliamentary ploy. He offered a relatively liberal substitute to the Jones budget that would have kept most social programs intact. Obey's purpose was to give moderate Republicans and Democrats from conservative districts a proposal to vote against-after which they could in good conscience vote for the far tougher Jones budget. But Republican Jeffords ruined the maneuver. He announced that he liked the Obey package and would vote for it. Knowing that it would fail, he would then vote for the Reagan-endorsed...
Councilor David Sullivan said the shooting incident "bears on our integrity and decency as a city. The government above all has to obey the law," he added...
...already had ideas of my own about the husband being the head of the family. I had taken the precaution to sound him on "obey" in the marriage pact and found he did not approve of the term. Approval or no approval, that word "obey" would have to be let out, I had served my time of tutelage to my parent, as the other half of the head of the family. His word and my word would have equal strength...
Thus, though skies may fall, and heroes may come and go, leading ladies obey the immutable laws of the genre. As Author Patty Matthews has it: "You get your heroine up a tree and then throw stones at her. In the end she gets the man, the money and the happiness." In Rhapsody (Pocket; $2.75), a typical contemporary, Lane is afraid to tell the desirable pianist, Michael, that she is a talent agent. When he discovers her occupation, Michael mistakenly believes that she loves him only for his signature on a contract...
...Brezhnev's unexpected proposal for a summit conference with Reagan, and is uncertain how to respond. While no U.S. official is pressing for an early summit, Haig is receptive to the idea of some kind of talks aimed at defining a "code of conduct" that the superpowers should obey...