Word: commitment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...violations were found in the spotchecks, but Celluci said floor plans and room measurements are needed to determine whether the dorms are indeed overcrowded. "I'm not going to commit myself until I see the facts and figures," he said...
...telling me to come back. They kept repeating over and over 'our young people get educated, they leave us, and they don't come back and help us. Our land is being taken away. Look what's happening to us.' I made a committment that night, I reaffirmed a commit ment that I have, to go back home and help those people there at home...
...known, for example, that the FBI sent an anonymous letter to Martin Luther King in 1963 suggesting that he commit suicide and that they tried to prevent him from meeting with Pope Paul VI in 1964. It is known that the FBI circulated false personal letters in the press and the mails for the purpose of discrediting participants in the anti-war movement. It is known that the FBI's largest dollar and man-hour activity was "No. 1-type activity"--activity aimed at "preventing people from teaching and meeting and speaking," according to the Senate Subcommittee on Intelligence...
...third best goals-against average in the Ivies, was beaten out at least for the moment by freshman Wade Lau for the starting goalie berth. Lau, a high school star in St. Paul, had a strong camp and was praised by players for his ability to force shooters to commit themselves...
...principle, there is nothing wrong with it. Practically speaking, it is impossible to implement. What could be done about crime? A man could commit a theft in East Jerusalem and get off scot free by running away to West Jerusalem, and vice versa. I'm afraid that divided sovereignty would soon mean the same walls, mines and barbed wire...