Word: committed
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Corporation is trying only to make the ACSR credible, but those efforts may force the Corporation to commit itself to looking into shareholder resolution, and Jorge I. Dominguez, professor of Government and a former committee member, anticipates trouble if the Corporation stumbles into such a role. "I'm sure that's a bridge no one will cross until they come to it," he says. Although the eight-companies-a-year plan is still a proposal, it seems likely to pass. And committee members say it is likely that the early investigations will include familiar trouble spots--companies under scrutiny because...
...golf course and then back home. Only memories disturb his endowed existence: as This Second Coming unfolds he mentally pieces together the events of a day in his early teens when, out on a hunting trip, his father tried simultaneously to kill him and to commit suicide...
...convinced that intelligent kids are most likely to commit suicide. They carry around burdens beyond themselves and feel frustrated at the lack of solutions...
Halevy insisted that his story was correct. Appearing before a Knesset commit tee, Achituv said that he had asked, well before the start of the bombing investigation, to resign at the end of the year. But Achituv flatly refused to discuss whether, as Halevy charged, Shin Bet did have strong pointers to the identity of the would-be assassins, who have yet to be arrested. Commented the independent daily Haaretz: "Doubts remain - if not with regard to the reasons for the security service director's resignation, then with regard to the investigation of the assassination attempts...
Pasternak is made to inveigh against capitalism, under which "every man must be prepared to commit any crime for the sake of money." In the U.S.S.R., on the other hand, "the Bolsheviks are reshaping human nature, directing man toward a better future." Metamorphosed into a true Soviet patriot and Communist, the fictional Pasternak has little trouble turning down the Nobel Prize: "What if I really am just a puppet in the hands of the imperialists?" In any case, he concludes, the prize was "not worth having...