Word: commitement
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Stout described her method of teaching community empowerment as forcing citizens to commit action themselves, even when organizers might be able more quickly to achieve purposes, in order to tech self-reliance...
...G.O.P. rank and file after they swept into power in 1994. His demand on the stump to "cut their pay and send them home" remains a crowd pleaser. But congressional experts are worried that for government to function during the "off season," the President's power to commit troops and spend money would become enhanced far beyond the checks and balances the Constitution envisions. These uncharted waters seem a high price to pay for reforms that stand little chance of luring the teacher- or farmer-statesmen for whom Alexander nostalgically yearns. What schools or farms, after all, can let people...
...daughters set up a campaign of their own. "They kept crying and pressuring their husbands," says the Jordanian security official. Receiving assurances from their mother in Baghdad, the women entreated their husbands to appeal for forgiveness. The wives swore on the Koran, "If you are killed, we will commit suicide." As the demands continued, Hussein Kamel became irritable and even violent. He fought constantly with other members of the defection party and last month was reportedly hospitalized for exhaustion...
Shakur seems to have decided that if people were going to criticize him for things he wasn't doing, if the justice system was going to convict him of a crime he claims he didn't commit, well, then, he was going to become the most dysfunctionally fearsome gangsta in America just to spite them all. In Wonda Why They Call U Bytch he offers up a dishearteningly crass justification for calling women cruel names. In Ambitionz az a Ridah he raps, conspiratorially, "Now these money-hungry bitches gettin' suspicious/ Started plottin' and plannin' on a scheme to come...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: A controversial 5-4 Supreme Court ruling Monday gave the government increased power to expropriate property used to commit crimes. The Court ruled that the 1988 seizure of a car used by a man for an assignation with a prostitute was legal, even though the confiscated car belonged to the man's wife. Tina Bennis, the owner of the car, argued that the government's taking of her 1977 Pontiac violated her constitutional rights to due process of law and compensation for seizure. In an impassioned dissent from the Court's decision, Justice John Paul Stevens called...