Word: commitement
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...officials decline to commit themselves to anything beyond a reworking of Cabot's dilapidated structure, beginning with Briggs Hall this summer. Before authorizing a new set of dining halls and a major overhaul of North. Harvard wants more time to pump the hands of potential donors, who could ease the way towards a more attractive Quad. But thus far, officials say, there's been no response to Harvard's fundraising overtures, which reportedly includes an offer to rename North in exchange for a cool $5 million...
...country; its inhabitants are so poor that they are known as "the afflicted ones." A recurrent theme of the press conference was inflation, which is now increasing at an annual rate of about 230%. Neves said that cuts in public spending are vital, but vowed "not to commit the gross mistake of using recession as a deflationary instrument. On the contrary, we will promote the resumption of growth...
...paragraph in question: that "Sharon also reportedly discussed with the Gemayels the need for the Phalangists to take revenge for the assassination of Bashir, but the details of the conversation are not known." TIME did not say, and has never said, that Sharon intended that the Phalangists commit a massacre, or encouraged such a massacre...
...priest briefly escaped and ran across a deserted hotel parking lot, yelling, "Help me, help me. Spare my life, you people." No one heard him, and he was quickly recaptured. Pekala testified that he felt "cheated" at having to shoulder the blame for a crime he was ordered to commit. Said Pekala: "I know now that there is no aim so high to justify the killing...
...nation goes imperfectly on. Teen-agers commit suicide, for reasons that baffle. The homeless sleep in our doorways or on warm-air grates. The monster deficit, which some say is the equivalent of nuclear doom, presides over the vestibule. America has been on a spending binge for years, and the arithmetic is ominous...