Word: commit
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Remember how hard you prayed in March? Please, God, give me just one little rally in tech stocks. I'll sell what I have left, I swear, and never again commit the sins of underdiversification and speculation. Well, you can throw that pledge on the scrap heap of desperate promises never kept. Tech is torrid. Again. You want in. Again. Yet this could turn into Bubble II, a sequel with nearly as much punch as the original. That's not what anyone wants to hear after a yearlong, tech-led bust that wiped out $5.2 trillion of stock-market wealth...
...telling you all this because I'm compulsively confessional, which I also am, being female and American and Oprah-watching, but that's another story. I'm telling you this to give you some examples of the sins of omission I have committed that, in a year or so, I will no longer be able to commit (or omit) because my mobile phone, by law, will give me away. A teensy chip in a tiny chipset somewhere in the inner workings of my cell-phone handset will alert some 27 satellites, known as the global positioning system (originally launched...
...higher calling than public service," both of which contradict the former Senator's religious views. Each morning at 8 he plays host to what he calls RAMP sessions--for Read, Argue, Memorize and Pray--in his office or conference room. From three to 30 participants chew over Bible passages, commit some to memory and finish with a prayer. Non-Christians are welcome, but many staff members consider the sessions inappropriate, given Ashcroft's position as guardian of the Constitution--including separation of church and state...
...This year the academy will serve about 350 students. But officials say in future years the University will commit additional funds to add science and other course offerings and will increase the number of students who attend the summer school...
...weeks before the trial's opening statements, the Justice Department released a report slamming the FBI forensics lab for sloppiness in gathering evidence, specifically citing the Oklahoma City case. Bureau whistleblower Frederick Whitehurst claimed that agents were routinely pressured to commit perjury in order to win convictions. But U.S. District Judge Richard Matsch allowed only six pages of the 517-page Justice report to be presented at trial. During McVeigh's subsequent appeals, his attorneys repeatedly claimed the government was withholding information helpful to McVeigh--allegations that, of course, the government denied...