Word: commit
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...same time, federal banking officials are readying a rescue mission for an ailing Texas bank, Houston-based First City Bancorporation (assets: $12.2 billion), which has lost more than $500 million in the past year and a half. The Government is expected to commit as much as $1 billion to guarantee the bank's loans as part of a plan in which a group of outside investors would take over the troubled institution...
...Williams, Bill Murray, Pee-wee Herman, Martin Short -- may have won their early stardom cadging laughs on TV or in the burgeoning comedy-club scene (see following story). Yet the Motion Picture Academy continues to lay laurels on lesser mortals whose roles require that they cry over the phone, commit suicide or speak with an English accent...
Later that day former Chief Justice Warren Burger condemned Biden's plan to ; grill Bork during the confirmation hearings. "No judge up for nomination under any circumstances should ever be asked to commit himself on how he's going to vote on a case that's coming before the court at some future date," declared Burger...
...page report reveals that mentally ill people who drink or use illegal drugs commit suicide at least twice as often as abstinent schizophrenics or manic depressives. Although these doubly cursed patients frequently show up in psychiatric hospitals and emergency rooms, they are unlikely to get much help. "These are the troublemakers," says Talbott, "the ones that everyone has given up on." Thanks in part to the easy availability of street drugs and alcohol, this hard-core subgroup is rapidly growing. "Twenty-five years ago you didn't have this problem, especially among the young," he notes...
...framers, determined never to give one man the authority of the European kings of their day to commit the nation to battle, gave Congress sole power to declare war. But they recognized that unity of command was essential, and so made the President Commander in Chief, thus giving him at least potential authority to order troops into situations where war might become inevitable. As early as 1801, Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton were disputing the division of power. President Jefferson told Congress that without a declaration of war, he could order only defensive action, even against enemy attack. No, said...