Word: commit
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...havens] don?t want to commit commercial suicide by moving ahead of international standards...
...promised to take her on an around-the-world trip and to teach history to his nephew; he also asked for a book called In Search of Excellence to help plan a business career following his release. These, she argues, were not the actions of a man about to commit suicide...
...industry, estimated that it costs an average of $802 million to bring a single new drug to market, though that number is disputed by consumer advocates. Says Alan F. Holmer, president of PhRMA: "Developing new medicines requires cutting-edge science, enormous investment of time and money, and willingness to commit those resources in the face of expensive failure after failure. None of this is compatible with price controls." But no one really knows how the money is spent. Indeed, the industry has refused to open its books to government auditors and once waged a nine-year legal battle with...
...killed a policeman and three members of an Israeli family. Israeli officials are hopeful that the third stage of the deal will see the return of Arad's body by the end of spring. The prisoner swap is controversial in Israel, where many believe the freed Palestinians will commit terror attacks again. People close to Batya Arad, the missing airman's mother, say that before she died in June 2002 she told her family she didn't believe Palestinian terrorists should be exchanged for her son's body. Ministers in Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's cabinet criticized him for dealing...
...expanding religious dimension to the insurgency presents fresh challenges for the U.S. as it tries to stamp out the resistance and prepare Iraq for self-rule. U.S. officials have long believed that jihadists threaten the stability of Iraq because of their willingness to commit suicide attacks, even against civilians. Saddam's arrest may have enhanced the appeal of jihadist groups to Iraqis. A senior U.S. intelligence official in Washington says jihadist leaders are rallying recruits by telling them that "now that Saddam's gone, the U.S. doesn't have the excuse of being there to eliminate the old regime...