Word: commitment
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Beyond broad foreign policy goals, the vice president spoke about specific issues, advocating that America engage with former Cold War adversaries and commit to bringing Africa into the world economic community...
...Brown said the FLA could not commit to such a policy...
...mother's home and moving in with them; Irving's father died after a long illness; Irving was repeatedly hospitalized for mysterious blackouts. The couple lost one pregnancy to miscarriage; a second pregnancy ended in stillbirth the same week Phyllis' mother died of esophageal cancer; Phyllis was forced to commit her father to a mental hospital...
...purple it could shame a grape. Most provocative theory: that Liston's two fights with the young Cassius Clay/Muhammad Ali were fixed by the Nation of Islam. Most convincing characterization: the drowning-in-slime, Mob-controlled world of big-time boxing circa 1960. Most vexing question: why anyone would commit a sentence like this one, typical in every way but its brevity: "What remained was epilogue and epitaph, chords like wind of death-song, of threnody." Uh, yeah...
...years, America's persistently falling crime rates have baffled the nation's policy wonks. The head-scratching can stop, because it's all been explained by a revelation Thursday from the Justice Department: There's no one left to commit crimes - everyone has been stuffed into prison. In part, of course, we jest; the figures, though, are serious. According to the DOJ's calculations, the U.S. adult prison population reached record levels in 1999; jails housed 1.86 million people last year, or one of every 147 citizens. That makes America, which in 1985 had less than 800,000 people behind...