Word: commit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...handgun ban to have its desired effects, it must first reduce the availability of handguns, particularly to those who are likely to use them to commit crime, murder, and violence. But Cassidy argues that a ban is unlikely to reduce their availability to the criminal element most likely to misuse them...
Banning handguns would only add another victimless crime to the already depressingly long list of such crimes. Real crime and murder could be prevented and vastly reduced by putting the repeaters who commit most of both in prison. Banning handguns would not only be an ineffective means for solving these problems, it would also be an illegitimate means...
Andrew L. Kaufman '51, professor of Law, said that he warns clients that "what you say to me may hurt you" should the client tell him of the intent to perjure himself or commit some future crime. He termed the resultant loss of information concerning the client a "cost that must be paid...
According to the American Bar Association (ABA) Code of Responsibility, Kaufamn said, a lawyer may reveal his client's intention to commit a future crime, but is not required...
...again went before the board the pressure was on him to have a change of heart. And White's decision reflected that pressure. Within a few moments after he announced that the project should receive top priority for remaining funds, the drama was over. The board voted unanimously to commit the $39 million for Mission Park...