Word: commit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Senate rely heavily on committee recommendations in making their decisions: a recommendation for or against a sale would be difficult to reverse. In carrying out its pro-sale campaign, the Administration therefore concentrated on two main fronts: the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the 37-member House International Relations Commit tee. Those bodies received anti-Administration resolutions brought forward by Delaware Senator Joseph Biden and Florida Representative Dante Fascell...
...another example of unfair attacks on Carter. The first four paragraphs leave the impression that he can't make a decision. Only after attacking Carter do you give the facts: military and political leaders differ sharply over the bomb, and none of the key NATO countries will commit themselves to allowing it in their territory. Carter has made the only possible choice. He is not wasting $4 billion producing a useless weapon, and he is not precluding future production should the situation change...
...examiners accused Lance and the banks of "fraud and deceit." Lance and the banks admitted no wrongdoing. Indeed, Lance in the past has blamed part of his troubles on "careless, erroneous or biased reporting" by the press. But he and the banks signed a consent decree, promising not to commit these kinds of questionable acts in the future. The decree bars Lance from ever again bouncing a check except in an "isolated and inadvertent" case. In addition, Lance agreed to give the Government 60 days advance notice before again assuming control of a bank...
...Projecting power abroad. This primarily means using the warplanes and Marine Corps detachments aboard aircraft carriers stationed in the Mediterranean and North Atlantic to help repel any Soviet attack against the relatively poorly defended flanks of NATO. The Sixth Fleet's two carriers, for instance, can rapidly commit more than 100 fighter-bombers, about half a dozen early-warning command-and-control aircraft and 1,800 Marines to battle on eastern Mediterranean shores in support of Greece and Turkey. From the North Atlantic's Second Fleet, planes could strike the mammoth Soviet naval facilities on the Kola Peninsula or dispatch...
...does, at times, commit himself. For example...