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Word: commits (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1990
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...stencils storm drains with dump no waste notices and monitors pollution in Puget Sound. Jeremiah Johnson, 10, from Brentwood, N.Y., puts his McDonald's detritus in recycling bins, tells his mother how long it takes each shopping bag to biodegrade and intervenes whenever his younger brother is about to commit an environmental outrage, like pulling the legs off a defenseless (and ecologically valuable) spider...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Endangered Earth Update the Ecokid Corps | 12/24/1990 | See Source »

...Bush Administration, there are two tense face-offs in the Middle East crisis. The other one is in Washington. There the White House is skirmishing with congressional Democrats over a constitutional question: Can President Bush commit U.S. forces to combat without first gaining the consent of Congress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Just Who Can Send Us to War? | 12/17/1990 | See Source »

Last week the debate intensified. "I do not believe that the President requires any additional authorization from the Congress," Defense Secretary Dick Cheney told the Senate Armed Services Committee. "The President, as Commander in Chief . . . has the authority to commit U.S. forces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Just Who Can Send Us to War? | 12/17/1990 | See Source »

...didn't really commit the AdBoardable offense of stealing books without borrowing them. I simply embarked on a small experiment last week. I checked the books out, concealed them on my person, and walked out with them. Twelve hefty books I heisted: two each from Lamont, Hilles, Widener, Langdell, Cabot and the Fogg Fine Arts libraries. No sweat...

Author: By Joshua W. Shenk, | Title: How I Ripped Off Lamont Library | 12/13/1990 | See Source »

...many of his novels including Another Country. Rufus is a drummer who kills himself because he can not escape the categorization as a Black artist, not just an artist. Rufus tries to live outside the label that others have given him but he fails. His frustration leads him to commit acts of violence against those he loves and eventually himself...

Author: By Melanie R. Williams, | Title: It's Not Just Ethnic Studies | 12/13/1990 | See Source »

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