Word: commitment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...proposal also recommends implementation of a pilot project if the department decides it cannot yet commit itself fully to the plan. The pilot program would permit a limited number of representative seniors to participate in the colloquia, exempting them from the general examination...
...revised proposal recommends implementation of a temporary pilot project if the faculty decides not to commit itself to the full project. The pilot plan would allow only a limited number of "representative" seniors to participate in the Senior Colloquia, exempting them from the general examination...
...most of the people in prison, if they were let out, would never commit another crime if they could get a good job." This is standard fare; but it is, of course, worthwhile that Hoffa is publicly adding his own well-known voice and connections with the labor movement to efforts for prison reform...
...most egregious invention, he hires a sound truck to tour white districts, lecturing about his grievances and their indifference. At which point the movie's insistence on reducing a complex character to a single, simple-minded dimension becomes too vulgar to bear. Ironically, the people who made Conrack commit the same errors as the educational system their hero rebelled against: they too distrust and patronize the intelligence of those they would instruct...
Soon Americans will have a recourse. President Nixon was due to sign a bill this week that will at last make the Government liable to pay damage claims if its law enforcement agents, while carrying out their duties, commit such offenses as assault, battery, false imprisonment, false arrest, or raiding without a proper warrant. The provision is the stepchild of Sam Ervin, the Senate's doughty champion of constitutional rights. Ervin was aided by Paul Verkuil, a professor at the University of North Carolina, in gathering the evidence that convinced Congress to adopt the provision. Says Verkuil...