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Word: commit (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1980
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DURHAM N.C.--Two Duke University students tried to commit suicide during exam period recently...

Author: By Compiled FROM College newspapers, | Title: Suicide Attempts | 2/16/1980 | See Source »

...Pentagon officials. SEC charges have been filed against scores of other major U.S. corporations in the past few years, and Textron responded the way most others have: it did not admit guilt, but declined to put up any defense. Instead, it agreed to an injunction ordering it not to commit any such acts in the future, and to reform its practices to make sure it did not. Case closed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Treasury Secretary Accused | 2/11/1980 | See Source »

...climax in a bizarre series of fade-outs that symbolize pauses between pelvic thrusts. Gere, as Julian Kaye, makes it clear that he does only straight, high-class women. He looks more embarrassed than worried when he gets framed for a handcuffs-cum-sex murder that he didn't commit in this kinky-trick movie that John Travolta should have made. Schrader filled his script with coincidences and absurd plot devices that are so ridiculous, so inconceivable they may well be true--the way True Confessions and True Love are true...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: Low Gear Tricks | 2/4/1980 | See Source »

...invasion of Afghanistan lays bare the basic untruths upon which the Soviet state is founded. It did not commit an act of war in the name of Communism. Nay, it did it for the lust of empire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 28, 1980 | 1/28/1980 | See Source »

Steiner said 29 Garden St., currently housing Harvard graduate students, satisfies most of the requirements. However, since no cost estimate has been made, Steiner said the administration will not commit itself to that site...

Author: By Alexandra D. Korry, | Title: University Police to Consider Relocating to 29 Garden St. | 1/25/1980 | See Source »

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