Word: commital
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That aside, certain aspects of the drug conflict are crippling our ability to properly punish and incarcerate those who commit violent, aggravated crimes while sober...
...Jack Kevorkian will stand trial in Michigan for helping a young man commit suicide. A district judge ruled last week that a new state law prohibiting assisted suicide had to be enforced, rejecting arguments from Kevorkian's lawyers that the law was unconstitutional. Kevorkian, meanwhile, was present at the apparent suicide of another Michigan resident -- the 18th case on his record...
...speaks volumes about the federal mind-set. But it is a fact that many Executive agencies are so obsessed with following the rules and staying within their budget that they never try to measure how well -- or if -- they serve the public. Gore and Clinton will insist that they commit themselves to specific performance standards and will suggest some -- for instance, that the Postal Service guarantee overnight delivery of all first- class local mail. Good idea -- but how to make sure such goals...
...producers seeking one's next work. But everything about this show is unusual: its length, its two-century sweep, its sprawling blend of domestic cruelty and historical revisionism. As a commercial venture, it is also daunting for its cast of 20 and the need to induce audiences to commit to two three-hour sessions. So it has taken nearly a year and a half to reach New York...
During preproduction on Wolf, Nichols' forthcoming movie starring Jack Nicholson, a source close to the director says that when Nichols encountered serious impediments -- Nicholson wouldn't commit, Columbia wouldn't approve the budget -- Cohn did not quietly throw his weight around and fix everything, Ovitzishly. "Mike ((Nichols)) would try to reach Sam," recalls the source, "and he'd have left the office for the night. And Mike couldn't just call ((Columbia chairman)) Mark Canton and yell at him himself." That's what superagents...