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Word: commitment (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...help turn this environmentally-conscious, financially-sound vision into reality, students must commit now to show the administration that large-scale recycling can work. The most obvious means to show support for the current college-level recycling is to take the time to drop your waste paper in the recycling bin instead of the trash can. Additionally, students can volunteer to help sort and bale the paper...

Author: By Steven J. S. glick, | Title: C'mon, Change the Sheets | 11/14/1989 | See Source »

...week in San Francisco, as parishioners of St. Francis Lutheran Church voted 46 to 5 to call a lesbian couple as assistant pastors: Ruth Frost and Phyllis Zillhart, both graduates of Luther Northwestern seminary in Minnesota. Bishop Lyle Miller refuses to approve them as ministers because they will not commit themselves to sexual abstinence. The congregation, half gay, will have to ordain the women on its own, defying both the ordination rules of the 5.3 million-member Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and its policy against "homosexual erotic activity" among ministers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Battle over Gay Clergy | 11/13/1989 | See Source »

...Cleary's chances of coaching Team USA are hampered by his reluctance to commit himself to coaching the team through both of the next two Olympics, which will be held...

Author: By Jeffrey C. Wu, | Title: Cleary Interviews For A.D. Post | 11/9/1989 | See Source »

...spirit of A.M. Rosenthal. Do a story, or a series of stories, on HDS. We have heard rumors that the oranges we eat come in boxes labeled "grade C: schools and prisons only." If that is true, it is only too apt. We ask: what crime did we commit to deserve such treatment? And whatever it was, what can we do to atone for it? Matthew Levin Kristine Zaleskas Michael Choi Joseph Dodge Valentin Rodriguez

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: McVeggie | 10/30/1989 | See Source »

...mistake was allowing private parties to bring RICO suits. It works this way: You commit one illegal act. Then, anytime within 10 years, you commit another. Gotcha! RICO! See you in court...

Author: By Joshua A. Gerstein, | Title: Reining in RICO Before It's Too Late | 10/21/1989 | See Source »

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