Word: obeys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...confident that Harvard will be obliged to obey the Commonwealth's decision and we believe this is Harvard's last opportunity to avoid the embarrassment of being told by the court they have to obey the law," Horwitz said...
During my time there, however, I perceived some conservatism among the staff. One counselor complained that the only way the older children would obey him was through fear--"pushing them around, but never really punching them." Playgroups are segregated by sex. In the "boys' playroom," children ride bicycles, run around, and climb monkeybars; in the "girls' playroom," passive behavior is encouraged, such as watching T.V. and crayoning. But through my contact with children, I realized the difficulty of translating theory into reality, and often sympathized with workers in difficult situations, though their actions were not the most "therapeutic...
...privation, layoffs and unemployment, authoritarianism and degradation in the quality of life " For the left, the crucial question was how well the votes would be transferred from Socialist to Communist candidates. It was generally assumed that in the disciplined Communist electoral corps, 80% could be counted on to obey their leaders' instructions to vote for a front-running Socialist. The heterogeneous and individualistic Socialist Party, however, could not be so reliable. It all depended, said a Socialist mayor, Pierre Mauroy, on whether voters "remembered the past six months [of public feuding] or Monday's agreement...
Carter invokes Taft-Hartley, but the miners vow they won't obey...
Once the papers are served, a task expected to be completed over the weekend, Taft-Hartley will be put to the test. Like Carter, Bell stressed that he thought the miners would obey the law and added that those who did should be protected by state and local authorities. When he was asked if his expectations might be overoptimistic in view of miner defiance in the past, he replied heatedly: "I'm really not interested as Attorney General in speculating about people not abiding by the law. They're patriotic people. I think it disparages the mine workers...