Word: commitment
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...Pentagon papers studied with fascination. It was sent to President John F. Kennedy in 1961 in response to a proposal from General Maxwell Taylor that the U.S. dispatch 8,000 troops to Viet Nam, ostensibly to work on flood relief. Taylor's recommendation included using the troops to commit American prestige in Viet Nam, to shore up morale and provide a back-up for the South Vietnamese army and to serve as an advance force for a wider American involvement. The cable argued against the recommendations, reasoning that the U.S. could still walk away from Viet Nam at this early...
...where men up and down the chain-from President Johnson through Daniel Ellsberg-have agonized over their share in making and carrying out policy, there has never been any doubt about where ultimate responsibility lay. Lyndon Johnson anguished over his decisions to bomb North Viet Nam and to commit U.S. combat troops, and he could not escape the consequences...
...both professionally and theologically solid. Larry Norman, probably the top solo artist in the field, attacks the occult in his album Upon This Rock: "Forget your hexagram/ You'll soon feel fine/ Stop looking at the stars/ You don't live under the signs." Many Jesus-rock musicians commit their lives as well as their talent. Drummer Steve Hornyak, 30, of The Crimson Bridge, gave up a $35,000 house, a Toronado, and a career as a school-band director when another Jesus musician challenged him to "go tell about Jesus." Scott Ross, 31, a former New York disk jockey...
...because of its flavors that Baskin-Robbins is unslurpassed. The company's polka-dotted pleasure palaces offer 31 constantly changing tastes. Right now, for example, ice cream cravers can commit caloric immolation with Blueberries 'n Cream, Pink Bubble Gum and Boysenberry Cheesecake. There is a newly consummated marriage of Bananas 'n Strawberries, a tangerine-vanilla merger called Tanganilla, plus the usual array of popular holdovers from months past: Caramel Rocky Road, German Chocolate Cake and Pistachio Almond Fudge, among others...
...confutation with black students a year and a half later was also due to a poor sense of polities. She has a tendency to try to please as many people as possible in any given. situation, which ends up offending all. Black Radcliffe students had asked for a definite commitment on the part of the administration to recruiting more black students. The Class of 1972 had only 13 blacks out of 350 students. Again, a lack of finances was a reason behind the administration's delayed response. Students had asked for a reply to their demand that Radcliffe commit itself...