Word: commitant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hunger vigil, taking only a single glass of juice to ease their fast. At the University of Notre Dame, 1,100 people sit down to a dinner of rice and tea-and donate more than $1,500 to the hungry. In Needham, Mass., an ecumenical group of 50 families commit themselves to eating three meatless meals together each week for six months...
...journalist and a former editor at the New Leader, Gilder plowed through obscure census data and federal studies for a year. He then sur faced with an alarming statistical portrait of the single man: he earns far less than a married man, is roughly twice as likely to commit crimes, go to jail and die early. He is also much more likely to develop physical and emotional illnesses and commit suicide. Though married blacks and single women face real handicaps in the job market, they make about the same amount of money as similarly qualified single white males...
...announcement yesterday that 44,754 of 120,000 miners in the United Mine Workers union voted to commit the union to an inadequate contract for the next three years was only official verification that business continues as usual--at the expense of the miners' expectations for a decent work and a decent life...
...principally on energy and food. In the final communique, the two leaders promised that their countries would cooperate on oil policy -an agreement that appeared to override Japan's previous reluctance to act in any way that might offend the Arab oil producers. But the statement did not commit Japan to joining the consumers in the event of a confrontation with the Arabs over oil prices...
...Some court decisions have actually restricted the medical sex rights of minors. The Utah Supreme Court has overturned a lower court ruling that would have eliminated the requirement for parental permission for contraceptives. The court held that giving contraceptives to unmarried minors would make them "more likely to commit the crime of fornication and to become infected with venereal disease...