Word: commitment
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...word, if the NLF, the Pathet Lao and the Red Khmers continue to make it difficult for the U. S. to commit genocide on the peoples of their countries, then Nixon will respond by committing it on North Vietnam...
Although the Class of 60 gave only $80.000 last year, the money went to the unrestricted Harvard Fund which is given over directly to operating expenses. Should the money be withheld, the Corporation would have to commit the income from nearly $2 million in the endowment to replace...
Strict Construction. All this raises several fascinating questions. In the past, congressional authorizations and resolutions short of a declaration of hostilities have been sufficient for Presidents to commit troops to military actions bearing many hallmarks of full-scale war. Is there a point at which an expanding nonwar becomes a real war that must be declared in order to be legal? Congress has rarely been concerned with providing the answer. Does this mean that Congress has now effectively construed the Constitution to mean that, in military engagements, once a nonwar always a nonwar? If so, must Congress follow...
...first started in the Open Theatre my political activities were personal. Later, many of us have tried to and successfully informed, influenced-whatever you want to call it-the rest of the people in the group. We've radicalized one another in many ways. We've tried to commit ourselves to situations which would educate us and continue to re-educate us all the time and to act on that education. Sometimes that meant playing in the dullest upstate New York communities in the world and at other times doing things that I suppose arenot supposed to be done like...
...country's health education system to produce many thousands more doctors and tens of thousands more paramedical personnel. Secretary Finch sincerely believes that the modest expansions of federal health programs that he has submitted to Congress are important steps in the right direction, but will not commit himself to true national insurance. His chief assistant for health affairs, Under Secretary Roger O. Egeberg, thinks that some such plan may very well evolve in "six to seven years." His prognosis is as good...