Word: commitant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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FRONT RUNNERS. Eliminating the clout of favorite sons and organized labor has had the net effect of aiding the party's front-running candidate Edmund Muskie. Encouraged to commit themselves earlier, the power brokers tend to go with the man they see as most likely...
...like a winner still, the four keep up their front all the way to the welfare-check line. Author Ralph Maloney's point is obvious but rather profoundly true: the one unforgivable crime is to be broke. To escape this ultimate guilt, the bankrupts band to gether to commit a lesser crime: hold up a bank...
Scott is about to commit suicide when Rigg walks in and provokes him into raping her. As she is the one who reaffirms his potency (he's halfdrunk, of course, and she's asking for it, so the rape is morally all right), it's quite conceivable that he should fall in love with her--an ex post facto defense of his actions, a justification of his renewed will to live, and so forth. But the film doesn't examine any of these possible motivations: "And so they fell in love." Period...
...major victory, for Harvard has been a crucial pro-management voter in such corporate responsibility proxy fights as Campaign GM. We would propose that as a first demonstration of the concern for the welfare of Black Africans that Bok showed in his Thursday evening statement, he publicly commit Harvard to support for the United Church of Christ's proxy fight for full disclosure of Gulf's role...
...down to write novels as a way of providing a legacy for his wife. Instead of dying, he lingered on to become a chronic writer. Rich, healthy Howard, by contrast, can think of nothing better to do than squander his easy money on a banal overseas tour and then commit suicide. It is not that Howard is outraged or dis gusted by life; he simply does not know what to do with...