Word: commited
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...council next passed a bill to call on college administrators to firmly commit to a policy of need-blind admissions...
...couple of regiments (a few thousand), or even battalions (roughly 1,000 men)." Although the two countries have agreed that the Russians will supply up to 2,000 soldiers to carry out support functions in Bosnia, Zarakhovich notes that politically it will be much more difficult for Yeltsin to commit combat troops. "Yeltsin cannot afford placing Russian units under Western command -- not on the verge of the elections to the Duma, the lower house of the Russian Parliament, which will be held in an atmosphere of rapidly mounting and shrill anti-Western xenophobia...
...Washington, prospects of peace have revived debate over Clinton's earlier promise to commit American ground forces as part of a NATO-led operation to enforce an eventual peace settlement. When the President first mouthed these words, they passed without discussion, for peace in Bosnia seemed a contradiction in terms...
...absence of a sustained international commitment led by the United States, there an be no lasting security arrangement in the Balkans. Media "hawks" suggest we should strengthen Bosnian forces rather than commit our own troops to securing peace...
...ASHAMED FOR MY COUNTRY AFTER reading about the rape of the young girl in Okinawa by U.S. servicemen. Those who commit such brutal crimes should be put to death, but men in my country commit rapes in frightening numbers because the penalty is laughable. LISA TUCKER Kingsville, Texas...