Word: commit
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...easy to see why; the Shia have been burned before by what they thought were U.S. promises of support. A Shia rebellion against Saddam in the aftermath of the first Gulf War was brutally suppressed, and no one here, remembering the tens of thousands killed then, was willing to commit to support the U.S. until it was absolutely certain that Saddam was going to be permanently removed as a threat...
...despite Ellison’s plea for better treatment of graduate students, Krupp Foundation Professor of European Studies Charles S. Maier ’68 said in an interview yesterday that hiring TFs so far in advance seemed unfair to those graduate students who are not ready to commit to teaching a semester in advance...
However, he said that he would like the University to strongly commit to disengaging itself from these companies in order to “set an important precedent...
...effort to commit the batch of grants back to FiCom for further consideration was defeated; the council passed the package unamended...
...We’re not going to sit back while people commit genocide,” Brooks said. “The rules of national sovereignty don’t seem as important as those people getting killed...