Word: commitement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...attacks are clearly part of a vicious strategy designed to force the Vietnamese to accept a permanent American presence of more than 200,000 troops in their country. The Administration has repeatedly refused to commit itself to the principle of total withdrawal because it intends to maintain the massive U. S. military bases in Vietnam permanently in order to consolidate its control of Southeast Asia...
Atkinson went on to explain her view that the women's movement could not progress any further until it was ready to commit itself to active resistance to all forces now oppressing women. She praised the Weathermen for their actions and cited them as "one of the few respectable [groups of] people around...
...That Harvard disclose any and all options it has on any property in Riverside and that it commit itself to giving public notice one month in advance of any prospective purchase it intends to make. And that Harvard disclose any and all transactions between the Riverside Press and the Cambridge Electric Power Co. concerning their holdings on Memorial Drive...
...There is good reason to believe that watching violence on television makes it easier for children to commit anti-social violent acts in the real world," he said...
...return for a guilty plea that will save the busy courts the time and expense of a trial. A 1968 survey of 136 accused muggers showed that 62% of them used such "plea bargaining" to get minuscule sentences for misdemeanors like petty larceny, which, strictly speaking, they did not commit. Moreover, a plea-bargained sentence often amounts to the time already served while waiting for trial. Mayor John Lindsay recently likened all this to the Queen of Hearts' version of justice: "Sentence first -verdict afterwards...