Word: commitement
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...couple had quarreled just before Sept. 11, and some in her family were angry with Roger for hurting Genelle; they say he wouldn't commit to her. But next to her hospital bed, Roger didn't hesitate. He said they could take the first step on the right path by getting married...
...what they identify as the primary danger, many of the old "realists" fear such instability could be even more dangerous. Other powers - China, India or Israel - may be tempted to pursue their own version of "preemption" in their regional conflicts, and the U.S. will have to be ready to commit American lives and treasure for extended periods to secure its victories in an increasingly dangerous world...
...nuclear weapon, it would gain a measure of invulnerability. This is not because its nuclear arsenal could ever match America's but because the threat of just a few nuclear weapons, delivered by missile or terrorist to, say, New York City or San Francisco, would allow an aggressor to commit whatever depredations he fancied, calculating that America would be deterred from intervening with its otherwise overwhelming conventional power...
...fooled into thinking that all people who commit suicide have carefully worked out a plan in advance. Studies of suicide survivors, says Thomas Simon, a behavioral scientist at the Centers for Disease Control, show that often just five minutes elapse from the time someone thinks about committing suicide until the actual attempt. This sometimes impulsive nature of the act is often facilitated by drinking alcohol...
...Rather than accelerating the action to catch up with the rhetoric, though, Scowcroft and others would prefer to tone down the rhetoric. Eagleburger suggested last week that Perle and Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz were maneuvering to commit the administration to attack Iraq simply to finish what was started in the Gulf War. But Perle and Wolfowitz are not mere loose cannons; they are seen in Washington as the spokesmen of the hawkish element in the Bush administration whose number is thought to include Defense Secretary Rumsfeld and Vice President Cheney...