Word: commitment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pressed against your temple. Each day you have 15 minutes to shower, brush your teeth and wash your underwear in the bathroom sink. Your bed is a mat on the floor. One of your fellow hostages tries to escape, and the guards beat him senseless. Another tries to commit suicide. One day you too reach the edge of your sanity. You begin furiously pounding your head against a wall. Blood oozes from your scalp and smears down your face...
Many left-leaning professors saw Clark's appointment as a sign that Bok wanted to commit the Law School to traditional forms of scholarship. Even conservatives said the selection reflected Bok's disdain for the political battles, and his desire to make the faculty concentrate on academic issues...
...Duke of Norfolk, Carl B.J. Fox gives a performance that is less animated than O'Keefe's, but his work is nonetheless convincing, particularly when he exasperatedly appeals to have More commit to the King's divorce. Jeremy C. Miller, who fills the role of the athletic and dandy young Henry VIII, has a similar tendency for cracking jokes and this humor fits the role. With a flippant bow and smile Miller turns to More and mocks: "I admire your taste in music; it happens to exactly coincide with...
...many faculty members, to teach in the Core is to commit an unnatural act," says Professor of Government Jorge I. Dominguez, who heads the Foreign Cultures subcommittee, one of eight that make up the Core Committee...
...going to take discipline," Gilligan said. "We have to play Harvard as evenly as we can, especially on five-on-five. If we commit too many mistakes, you give them too much ice, and they'll use their speed and skating skill to capitalize...