Word: commiting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wives. University of New Hampshire Sociologist Murray Straus projects an equally grim picture of this battle of the sexes. On the basis of his 1976 national survey of violence in 2,143 representative American families, he concludes that about 2 million husbands and about the same number of wives commit at least one serious attack a year on their mates. These range from kicks, bites or punches to murderous assaults with knives and other deadly weapons. Says University of Rhode Island Sociologist Richard Gelles, another student of domestic combat: "Men and women have always been equal victims in family violence...
...exchange for getting him back, the Justice Department has agreed to drop an indictment charging Park with 36 counts of assorted crimes, including bribery, mail fraud and failing to register as an agent of a foreign government. But Park could still risk jail should he commit perjury in his interrogation; and Leon Jaworski, the House Ethics Committee's Special Counsel, is persuaded that that fact will encourage him to tell it like...
...inducing cells to "commit suicide," a Harvard Medical School researcher has stated he may develop a treatment for two, and possibly three, forms of cancer by the end of the year...
...Palestine Liberation Organization's official agitators around the world say that all the murders they commit by themselves and by hired murderers are done to establish a Palestinian state in the areas now administered by Israel. This is clearly false--for 19 years (1948-1967) they sent murderers to kill innocent and unarmed people...
...Council of Eco nomic Advisers: "There seems to be some belief that you can exorcise this state of business mind by mass psychotherapy. But you can't because the attitudes are not irrational. When you are uncertain about the environment for investment, then you will not commit your money, just as someone will not run in the middle of the street blindfolded." Otto Eckstein, head of Data Resources Inc., a Boston-based, computerized economic-forecasting firm, thinks that executives' caution should not even be described as "lack of confidence," but rather as "business realism...