Word: commit
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...Stone said that one Brown administrator has even asked him to speed up the process because prospective presidents might not want to commit to Brown until they were sure they were not being considered for the Harvard post...
...defuse tensions by showing a willingness to cooperate with an international commission, led by the United States, that would investigate the claim that excessive force has been used; regardless of whether such claims are accurate, such cooperation would serve as a powerful sign that Israel is willing to re-commit to the peace process. Finally, we urge Barak resist calls to form a coalition government with Sharon and the conservative Likud Party, a government with which the Palestinians would not negotiate...
Time moves backward when it is time to move on. The dynamics may change, these murderous passions may exhaust themselves. (It is hard to believe that anyone's sense of injured honor would be appeased by joining a lynch mob to commit the most primitive of murders. But victims feel themselves to be justified in anything that they do.) In any case, maybe peace will become possible again after this fire has blown itself out. If it does blow itself...
...Anyone who would go out and commit a capital crime deserves, in my mind, to suffer capital consequences," he said...
...they took two months to put an economic program into effect, and in that period, domestic interest rates went from 15% to 110% . There was no way that anyone could pay their bills. Zedillo tried to cover this up with a dis-information campaign blaming my administration. We did commit mistakes. But none of those insufficiencies or mistakes provoked the huge economic crisis...