Word: commitment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...venerable intellectual who was charged with allowing SAVAK and CIA agents to use his foreign ministry as a cover, insisted that he was only following orders-a defense heard often at the trials. Khalatbari also raised a damning but unproven charge against the Shah, who, he said, "used to commit treason. He killed a few people with his own hands...
Second, J.P. Stevens has spent millions trying to conceal their own tarnished name under a confusing variety of brand names, such as Utica and Tastemaker. Neither retail chain will commit itself to a truly fair consumer test--by indicating what products are actually made by Stevens...
Accomplishing much of all that will be extremely tough for two reasons. First, laws enacted by previous Congresses commit the Government to increasing federal spending in the years ahead, even though such outlays reduce the capital available for investment; in many ways, the nation has mortgaged its future. Second, powerful groups have vested interests in keeping these laws just the way they...
Next to blabbing of his amours, the most heinous offense a gentleman may commit is to divulge the name and whereabouts of that movable mecca, the small, inexpensive, discrete, family owned restaurant with a menu of rare enticements and threefork ambience. The temptation to tell can be strong. John McPhee, 48, author of the bestselling portrait of Alaska, Coming into the Country, and other books, not only is a gentleman but a gourmet and a cook; he is also a compulsive describer. He compromised. In the Feb. 19 New Yorker, McPhee devoted a 25,000-word profile to his favorite...
...great American experiment is fast approaching its second childhood. If tutorials are ever to regain their value as a pedagogical tool, faculty must collectively commit themselves to the business of educating undergraduates...