Word: commitment
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Because the University expended such a great deal of effort in convening and supporting the committee, administrators seem reluctant to commit to another lengthy review and deliberation process...
...about to commit a Harvard heresy. Hold on to your hats. I don't have a job. I'm not going to be paid a lot of money to do anything; in fact, I'm not going to be paid anything to do nothing. I don't even really know where I want to live, what I want to do or how I'm going...
...media a release valve for reporting the types of racially charged stories that have become taboo. "In the first 80 pages of a newspaper, writers feel they can't report anything that reflects badly on minorities. So on our sports pages we're regularly reading about athletes who commit violence against women, but the stories don't mention that over 8,000 such acts occur across the country each day. Or that the rate of spousal abuse among professional athletes is actually lower than it is for society at large...
...grip on power. It was the same concern to maintain order that drove the crackdown last year on the Falun Gong religious sect, which while it had no obvious political agenda represented an independent nationwide organization that the communist leadership found threatening. So while WTO membership will formally commit Beijing to open up large sectors of its economy to foreign competition, the realities of implementation are likely to be governed by the overriding concerns of China's leadership to maintain social control. In other words, it's going to be slow going...
...Velez. He will spend the summer shooting the film and the fall term editing it. Velez is mainly interested in documenting contemporary topics, although he is not entirely sure what topics he would like to pursue in the future, since "when you come up with a topic, you commit to it for six months." Velez also plans on doing a thesis, although he is not yet sure what about; as he says, "it's really hard to know what you are going into when you start a project. You have to case about for awhile." Next fall, along with editing...