Word: commit
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...some businesses whose products or proprietary information could be, in a sense, hijacked and used to commit acts of terror, the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon came as a dark revelation. "Sept. 11 got a lot of people thinking, What is our industry's version of the $300 impenetrable cockpit door that could prevent billions in liabilities?" says John Nolan III, a former SCIP president and the chairman of PHOENIX CONSULTING GROUP. Nolan points to information and technology about dangerous chemicals as a potential target for terrorists. "Liability or embarrassment--those are the forces driving people...
...Arafat is not taking the bait. The erstwhile prisoner of Ramallah demanded (and, in substantial part, received) an Israeli withdrawal from recently reoccupied Palestinian towns as a precondition for talks, but even then was in no hurry to commit himself to General Anthony Zinni's cease-fire plan...
...these madcap heiresses and showbiz Romeos had a job: to be seen being glamorous, by sitting in Manhattan night clubs that served as the fraternities of the leisure class, an Ellis Island for the elite. There the swells would sip martinis, intone the odd witticism or inanity and occasionally commit some headline indiscretion. It was all frightfully decadent, and frightfully innocent...
...Slaughter agreed that the use of military tribunals for “unlawful fighters” and non-citizens who commit crimes outside of the U.S. is constitutional...
...Slaughter was not convinced of the constitutionality of military tribunals trying individuals who reside in the U.S. or who commit crimes while...