Word: commitment
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...real. The idea that Bush is "a uniter, not a divider" or will commit to real progress on leveling the economic, health, and educational playing fields is fallacious. Even if you buy his pledge to go where his political party has not, no one with a divided Congress is uniting much of anything in the next four years, so forget personality and think fitness for office both in terms of foreign policy and the Supreme Court...
Changes in DNA that would lead to cancer if unchecked are common in the body, but when cells notice that their DNA is damaged, they will tidily commit suicide in the best interest of the organism...
Kaelin wants to try to coax cancerous cells to commit suicide by giving them very high levels of the molecule that turns on p53 and p73. No one had thought of doing this before because scientists thought that the cell suicide machinery was broken in cancers. But now it seems that there is an alternative cell suicide machinery that cancer overlooks...
...PRDRE), it has become clear that the shady character stereotype prevails in a very real and insidious way. Though many students can talk the talk of cultural sensitivity on the issue, the underlying belief held by most people I have worked with remains: "Harvard students are too smart to commit rape or to be victims of rape...
...their defense, the associations claim that letting banks work with Amex and Discover would undermine a legitimate advantage--like forcing McDonald's to sell Burger King's fries. They say many banks have already pledged to commit more than 80% of their card business to one brand, thereby reducing their self-interest in the other and increasing competition. The defendants also wonder why Justice's proposal contradicts its expert witness, who testified that banks dedicated to one brand should be allowed to issue a small percentage of the other's cards...