Word: commitment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...member American Conservative Union, meanwhile, has been mobilizing grass-roots opposition. It has produced a 30-minute anti-SALT film that so far has been shown on 209 television stations. ACU plans to commit far more to fighting SALT than the $1 million it spent in vain on the Panama Canal struggle. Says one Administration official: "Compared with SALT II, passing the Panama Canal treaties was playing tiddlywinks...
Whether Dederich will have to face trial in California may be decided at an extradition hearing scheduled for Jan. 2. He faces charges of solicitation to commit murder and conspiracy to commit murder and assault with a deadly weapon. Although free on $100,000 bail, Dederich remains hospitalized. His attorney, Thomas Thinnes, argued that Dederich was "in no condition to return to California because he needs medical attention." Thinnes says that he has been told by doctors that the Synanon founder has a drinking problem, suffers from a heart ailment and obesity and is in a deep depression. Last week...
...emptiness of his heroism leaves him dissociated from ordinary life when he returns home. Nick succumbs to madness and drugs. The two pals are Hawthorne's Dimmesdale and Chillingworth gone berserk. One man's strong will to survive becomes the other's will to commit suicide; a nation's manly mission turns into a self-inflicted wound. The director leaves the assignment of blame to historians...
Watson and Cochrane switched roles in their duet on the second Harvard talley at 10:28. Watson broke into the Vermont zone and forced two Cat defensemen to commit themselves before sliding the puck to J.C. streaking down the right wing. Cochrane shifted Frost out of position before springing a backhand to the low left corner...
Against the general backdrop of depressing economic developments and political realignments, the New Democratic Party and the National Canadian Labour Congress (CLC) are intensifying their cooperative electoral efforts. The Congress is preparing to commit an unprecedented number of staff people and field organizers to the NDP for the 60 days prior to election...