Word: commitment
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...State Madeleine Albright, the war in Kosovo has been as much about morals as it has been about geopolitics. Every Tomahawk, every B-2 and every smart bomb was working not only to demolish the Serbs' will to fight but also to destroy the idea that dictators could commit the nastiest of crimes as long as they acted inside their own country. It was a war, says Maryland's Democratic Senator Joseph Biden, an influential Clinton adviser, designed to show that men like Slobodan Milosevic "cannot hide behind a border." But for Clinton it may also be the war that...
Chicago officials, along with the League of Cities and 31 states that sided with them in court, might do well to look at one state where anti-gang loitering prosecutions have withstood constitutional challenges: California. The state has two antiloitering statutes on the books, aimed at people intending to commit specific crimes--prostitution and drug dealing. In addition, a number of local prosecutors are waging war against gangs by an innovative use of the public-nuisance laws...
...problem to be of national scope. Citing police statistics, case studies from 23 states and media reports, the organization asserts that law-enforcement agencies have systematically targeted minority travelers for search--pedestrians, motorists and airline passengers--based on the belief that they are more likely than whites to commit crimes. Says David Harris, the University of Toledo law professor who wrote the A.C.L.U. study: "It affects blacks and Hispanics from every station in life and every geographic location...
...other officials in the weeks following this comment were unwilling to commit to something so concrete...
...academic specialization and burgeoning subfields, it is unlikely that our concentrations will commit to substantial reductions in course requirements. Nor is it likely that the faculty will abandon the principle that students should commit a significant number of courses to exploring "ways of thinking" outside their concentrations. New discoveries about the natural and physical world, new art forms, and new social developments will call for new disciplines...