Word: commited
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...worrisome pattern to date. "Even if we got several hundred reports involving suicide and Prozac, we wouldn't be alarmed, given how many people use the drug and the nature of the disease," notes Dr. Paul Leber, director of the FDA's division of neuropharmacological drug products. "Depressed people commit suicide." Nonetheless, the agency is watching closely, and Eli Lilly revised its product literature in May to alert physicians to the suggested association with suicide. "But we emphasize that there is no reason to believe a cause-and-effect relationship exists," says company spokeswoman Marie Abbott...
...garbage. They are not going to take any unfair competition from overseas. They are willing to fight for their rights. But they have no fear about competing on any playing field anywhere with anybody, because they think they and their people are that good and they are willing to commit resources to research and development. But they are the minority, and that's the concern...
...real origin of the suspicions about Germany's future is, of course, its dark past, namely the crimes committed during the twelve-year reign of Adolf Hitler. Hitler, after all, did not commit those crimes by himself; other Germans piloted the bombers over Warsaw, and other Germans operated the gas chambers at Auschwitz. Though the majority of today's Germans were not even born when those crimes were committed, the nation remains tainted by the Nazi legacy that endures in the world's memory...
...issue in the Uruguay Round: the huge agricultural subsidies doled out by these supposedly free-market economies. Each year taxpayers and consumers in the industrialized countries pay roughly $245 billion to support farm prices ($32 billion in the U.S. alone). The leaders of the U.S. and the E.C. should commit to a significant reduction of this gross distortion of world trade. And, just as the European Community is doing internally by 1992, the summit should pledge to eliminate tariffs on manufactured goods and restrictions on trade in services among all industrialized countries by the year...
...Compensating all these claims could lead to economic, political and social catastrophe in East Germany." Says Richard Motzsch, an expert on East German property claims at the West German Ministry for Inter-German Affairs: "Emotions are running very high on this issue, but we must be careful not to commit new injustices while trying to correct old ones...