Word: commitment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...circulate that IBM's third-quarter earnings were down. In fact, as announced late in the week, they fell 18%. The unsold paper, possibly $300 million worth, was dumped on the open market, where it fared badly. IBM's timing ignored a hoary Wall Street axiom: "Never commit yourself to a major issue before a long weekend. Who knows, we may be at war by Tuesday." There was no war, but the underwriters were routed nonetheless...
...Simonet told TIME: "Without ratification of SALT II, it will be politically impossible for the West Germans-and even more so for us Belgians and the Dutch -to say that we are going to modernize our theater nuclear forces. I will not accept the risk. It would be to commit political suicide, and if people like me don't move, you can be sure that most other politicians won't move. I'm not going to budge until I have the cover of SALT...
...these moral decisions--and all their shades of gray--that obsess Nadine Gordimer. Burger's Daughter dramatizes Rosa Burger's search for a cause to which she can commit herself, while accepting her fears, doubts, and ambivalence...
...gets there, all right, but his accomplishment is tarnished. Sent into orbit to inspect a Soviet satellite, Kinsman kills a Russian cosmonaut by yanking out her airhose as they grapple soundlessly in the vacuum. Haunted and horrified that he could commit such an act Kinsman must find out what made him kill another human being without reason. Only then can he bring into space his victory of morality over military training, confrontation politics, and the squandering of resources...all earthbound evil...
...flattering to Barth. Each of his correspondents either relives or believes he is reliving a portion of his past life. Lady Amherst echoing Samuel Johnson, calls it "an epidemic rage for reenactment." Andrews draws up a detailed schedule of the events that led up to his first decision to commit suicide, and realizes he's reliving it all, and heading in the same direction. Each generation in the exhaustive family history of the Cook/Burlingame clan spends the first half of its life undoing its parents' work and the second half undoing its parents' work and the second half undoing...