Word: commital
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Rudenstine said it was possible that no group of schools may end up participating. "It still remains to be seen whether there will be any participating group," he said. "I think from a practical point of view very few institutions will be able to commit to this because they simply can't afford it," he said...
...said that the schools will continue to discuss the matter among themselves and with their own governing boards. "[They] are thinking very hard, because it's not only a question of an immediate commit- ment, it's a prospective commitment to fullneed-blind admissions and full need-based aid forall students," he said...
...those former Soviet satellites finally in a position to join the free world's premier defense alliance. "It would be a historic sin to miss this opportunity to bind in the East Europeans," says NATO Secretary-General Manfred Worner. But the West, led by the U.S., is about to commit that very sin. The 16 nations that already enjoy NATO's protection are on the verge of effectively denying it to others...
...willing to entertain the idea that the U.S should be prepared to use force selectively to solve regional problems like Bosnia and Haiti, he quickly became a defender of General Powell's all-or-nothing view that in places where the U.S. is not prepared to commit the full extent of its power, it should not commit...
...Secretary Shalala said gun violence should be considered "a public-health crisis that requires public-health solutions," like polio in the 1950s and AIDS today. Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders asked Americans not to buy toy guns for children this Christmas. "We know that toy guns were used to commit 30,000 robberies in the last five years," she said, "and many times our children feel that real guns are just like toys...