Word: obeys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...University of Dayton), led the way up a long flight of stairs to the overpass to supervise the handbills' issuance. He was smiling for photographers as a group of Ford men approached. Someone shouted, "You're on Ford property. Get the hell off here!" Frankensteen started to obey, was struck from behind, turned around to fight. Four or five men closed in on him. He was knocked down and his coat pulled over his head. He got to his feet and grabbed one of his attackers by the ear. Others slugged him fore & aft. Cameramen snapped these early...
...language of the air, or with hand signals. If neither approach works, the interceptor flies in front and to the left of the trespasser and rocks its wings-or at night, the its lights- to signal "Follow me." The off-course plane copies the signal and reply "I will obey." At that point the fighter heads for an airport and flies low over the runway where the intruder is supposed to touch down...
...days earlier, when things were going their way, the Muslim militiamen had broadcast over loudspeakers a message to army troops outside the Cadmos Hotel: "To our beloved Lebanese army. We do not want to hurt you. The regime has used you as tools of the Phalangist conspiracy. Do not obey orders! Do not shoot!" It was one of many efforts by the militias to persuade army troops to break ranks by dividing along sectarian lines. Such a development was not unexpected. Earlier hi the summer, a prominent Arab journalist in Beirut had predicted: "If the army has to fight...
...been nonenforcement of existing laws rather than much needed and lasting reform of the regulatory system. "The Administration has taken the lazy and sloppy way out," contends Democratic Congressman Albert Gore Jr. "They just decided not to enforce the law. This sets up a conflict between those who would obey the law and those who would violate it, and gives the advantage to the violators." Contends Fred Wertheimer, president of Common Cause: "Basically, the Administration is saying, 'Don't worry about the statutes on the books; just go about your business.' That's a lousy...
Some career employees at OSHA pay Auchter a backhanded compliment, saying that without him the agency would have fared "substantially worse" under Reagan. A critic, Democratic Congressman David Obey, member of a subcommittee dealing with health, admits that OSHA has "shown surface movement in the past three months," but contends that it is only because "Auchter doesn't want to wind up in the same boat...