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Word: commit (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...They headed for the 18th-floor office of Richard Wigton, 52, head of the company's risk-arbitrage and over-the-counter stock-trading departments. As Kidder, Peabody employees looked on in dismay, the officers arrested Wigton, then led the stunned executive away. The charge against Wigton: conspiracy to commit illegal insider stock trading...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Raid on Wall Street | 2/23/1987 | See Source »

...vast majority of today's population were either children then or had not been born. They cannot profess a guilt of their own for crimes that they did not commit. No discerning person can expect them to wear a penitential robe simply because they are Germans. But their forefathers have left them a grave legacy. All of us, whether guilty or not, whether old or young, must accept the past...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Excerpts From Address After Bitburg | 2/20/1987 | See Source »

...University wants to make sure its representatives do not sign something and commit the University to something it can't enforce or uphold," said Director of Computer Operations Lewis A. Law, one of four people designated by Spence to sign software licenses...

Author: By Julie L. Believe, | Title: Spence Regulates Faculty Use of Software Licenses | 2/12/1987 | See Source »

...lawyer said he had not talked withMcFarlane since last Friday. But, he said, expertson the drug believed it was virtually impossibleto commit suicide with Valium...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: McFarlane Is Hospitalized For Drug OD | 2/10/1987 | See Source »

...important to remember that more troubled people are helped than commit suicide. With all the emphasis on suicide, it's still a rare event statistically," Jacobs said...

Author: By Terri E. Gerstein, | Title: Men Are More Likely to Commit Suicide | 2/9/1987 | See Source »

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