Word: commital
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Knowles, whose administrative fiefdom must payfor any aid increases, would still not commit lastweek to anything beyond a review of aid options bya committee over the summer...
Miller explained his reversal by saying that,while he had personal convictions about the bestdirection for aid change--"clearly, we thinkself-help levels should be looked at"--he "couldnot commit FAS" to any particular outcome...
While officers don't ignore smaller deals, they also prefer to catch dealers with larger amount of drugs in order to commit them for a longer amount of time...
...College's failure to commit to leading rather than following on the crucial matter of financial aid embodies every negative stereotype that those outside of Harvard associate with our fair University. It is arrogant, selfish and snide. The University coddles its funds, running capital campaigns to build extra squash courts while throwing its students (even the squash players) into ungodly debt...
...that they are simplistic versions of the excuses that have showed up in the trials of (real) adult murderers. How many cases have come before the courts of men slaying their wives and girlfriends? Or men claiming that boredom, or Twinkies, or something else ridiculous drove them to commit a crime? These children are only following the pattern America has set out for them over the last generation...