Word: commitement
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...obliged us to up to now. In the past five years, Latin America has paid back the total amount of its debt service, yet now it owes more than before. And what is the result? The economic growth of Latin America is now zero. Our countries have had to commit more than 50% of the value of our exports to debt service. That's intolerable. No country in the world can do this. If the U.S. was forced to accept these conditions to pay its debt, that would be really disastrous...
...Amex Life Assurance Co. decided to award the money despite the Navy's conclusion that Hartwig may have engineered the blast to commit suicide. But the company disputes the claim by Truitt's lawyer that the payoff disproves the Navy's findings. Said a spokesman: "Amex is not saying that ((Hartwig)) did or did not commit suicide. What Amex is saying is that there is not enough evidence to deny a claim based on suicide...
...help turn this environmentally-conscious, financially-sound vision into reality, students must commit now to show the administration that large-scale recycling can work. The most obvious means to show support for the current college-level recycling is to take the time to drop your waste paper in the recycling bin instead of the trash can. Additionally, students can volunteer to help sort and bale the paper...
...week in San Francisco, as parishioners of St. Francis Lutheran Church voted 46 to 5 to call a lesbian couple as assistant pastors: Ruth Frost and Phyllis Zillhart, both graduates of Luther Northwestern seminary in Minnesota. Bishop Lyle Miller refuses to approve them as ministers because they will not commit themselves to sexual abstinence. The congregation, half gay, will have to ordain the women on its own, defying both the ordination rules of the 5.3 million-member Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and its policy against "homosexual erotic activity" among ministers...
...Cleary's chances of coaching Team USA are hampered by his reluctance to commit himself to coaching the team through both of the next two Olympics, which will be held...