Word: commital
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...impartial jury to hear the case, press reports are hardly "polluting the minds" of those who read them, as defense attorneys in the case have maintained. Press coverage allows the public to judge the severity of the problem of sexual violence among college students and gives those who might commit such violence notice their actions could have grave consequences...
...them are hard workers, and there should be a way for them to work -- but then go back home. A lot of the others don't come to work. They steal, break into people's homes, bring drugs." San Diego police say they have no evidence that illegal aliens commit more crimes then the general population...
...authorities," says Longilo Miranda, 18, a worker from southern Mexico. He lives with his father in a scrap-wood lean-to. Marjorie Gaines, a city-council member in Encinitas, an upscale seaside community that includes some of the encampments, charges that undocumented workers litter, breed disease, commit crimes and harass whites. Gaines claims that drunk aliens burned down a local convenience store after the owner refused to sell them liquor. "These are border toughs," she says...
...Powell's insistence on that point was a hangover from the painful escalation of the Vietnam War, where he served two tours, but Powell denies it. "It's not so much my Vietnam experience as 32 years of military education and training," he says. "If you are going to commit the armed forces of the U.S. to a military operation that could involve conflict and loss of life, then do it right...
...Iraq rhetoric took on a more belligerent tone last week, 15 congressional leaders hurried to the White House to hear President Bush explain his intentions. Afterward Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell repeated a message he has delivered many times: "Under the Constitution the President has no legal authority to commit the U.S. to war. Only Congress can do that...