Word: commitment
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...think the commitment to the cause, and the means of affecting the cause differs as much as people do. Skills vary from teaching to public interest law to elected office. The key is getting people to commit lives to affect society," Pan says...
...Bradley has displayed a willingness to try out new ways of improving our public schools. In addition, recognizing the implications of our current teacher shortage, Bradley has vowed to forgive student loans for 60,000 college students, high-school graduates and mid-career professionals who certify as teachers and commit to serving in poor urban or rural schools...
...reasons that are somewhat understandable and forgivable, somewhat not. Writers tend to live in dank, airless cells of self-recrimination. Nothing is ever as good as it should be, and sometimes it is plain awful. Realizing what they have done, they hate themselves, frequently showing excellent judgment, and commit murder instead of suicide...
...exaggerated version of the Boomers in Malcolm is a breakfast-food commercial gone psycho, a battle zone where there's always one less frozen waffle than child and where three brothers--a fourth's in military school--commit hilariously baroque mayhem on one another and the house: "Leave the squirrel alone and get the fire extinguisher!" we hear in one scene. Supporting Muniz is a crack cast, especially Jane Kaczmarek as Lois and Erik Per Sullivan as littlest brother Dewey, an amiable first-grader with the brain of a turnip...
Having dropped its demand that Israel publicly commit to a Golan withdrawal beforethe commencement of any talks, Syria insisted that this be the first item of business. But with one eye on a domestic political base skeptical about retreating from the strategic plateau, Prime Minister Ehud Barak was more interested in making security arrangements the top priority. The U.S.-brokered compromise involved the creation of four commissions that would meet simultaneously to discuss borders, security arrangements, water supplies and normalization of relations. While the commissions on security and normalization have started their work, those looking at borders and water haven...