Word: commitment
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Since Parker began the novelty of year-round training for the spring crew season many years ago, it has become harder to get people to commit so much time of their collegiate lives throughout the academic year. Some of the special activities for the oarsmen during the off-season training period include the Tail of the Charles--the freshman equivalent of the Head of the Charles--in the fall, and the Crash-B Indoor Rowing Championships in the winter on MIT's simulation ergometers...
Because that's the way Latin Americans are, the audience says. They're supposed to deal drugs. They're supposed to commit crimes...
Then there's Paul Newman's classic Fort Apache, the Bronx. Newman, the aging cop, had to ward off a slew of crime-hungry Puerto Ricans. Commit crimes--that's what Latin Americans like to do, the audience must conclude...
Officials at UMass agreed to take action against students who commit racial violence, while the school's chancellor, Joseph Duffey, sent the protesters a basket of fruit...
...Iranian terrorists convicted of taking part in attacks on the U.S. and French embassies in Kuwait in 1983. But the hijackers' safe passage out of Algeria not only prevents them from being brought to justice for killing two passengers in Larnaca but also frees them to commit terror anew...