Word: commitement
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...entice the Patriots to Hartford, which only two years ago lost its NHL franchise, Gov. John G. Rowland had to commit $1 billion to a new convention center and stadium on its dilapidated waterfront. Meanwhile, the city--one of the nation's poorest--struggles to fund its schools. Hartford is not the only city with such skewed priorities. A new stadium is not a panacea for urban renewal. With so many more pressing needs, it is a wonder that cities continue to pay the ransoms demanded by team owners...
...claims it went public now to gauge the acceptability of such research and to help decide whether to commit money to it. But peer review is going to be tough, given that it's unlikely that any serious scientific journal will publish ACT's skimpy material as it stands. Nor will the market make anything out of it -- ACT has no IPO on the horizon...
...Crimson Women's Tennis Team is composed of a group of women who compete intercollegiately and hold weekly practices but lack the time to commit to varsity or junior varsity tennis at Harvard. Last winter, Oreskovich and seniors Karinne Jervis and Supinda Bunyavanich got together and formed the team with the hope of eventually organizing matches against other colleges...
...Gordon Harvey, the assistant director of Expository Writing, points out, "The 'he' construction nowadays...suddenly calls attention to the writing and the writer. Unfortunately, many of the proposed alternative constructions...also stick out." For example, writers commit stylistic suicide if they repeatedly use the clunky "he or she" ("If anyone wants to, he or she can pick up his or her paper after lecture") or the dull, formal "one" ("If anyone wants to, one can pick up one's paper...
Kerry opened by discussing the recent movie Saving Private Ryan,which he used as an illustration of "citizen/soldiers," people he said who are willing to commit themselves to civil service...