Word: commiting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...head out the window and tries to focus his eyes on the UFO, but he is cowed by the light. Suddenly, the electrician's facial expressions seem to indicate that the alien beings inside the saucer are communicating with him telepathically, probably trying to force the innocent earthling to commit some dastardly deed for the invaders...
Dayan: Let's not commit ourselves...
...world." Adds Edgar Koerner, managing director of Kuhn, Loeb & Co.: "Borrowers can easily get $150 million and even $200 million for up to 20 years-terms that would be difficult in Europe." There, he explains, lenders do not have as much capital to advance and are reluctant to commit what they can lend for long periods on fixed interest rates. They fear that rampant inflation will make a rate that looks attractive now unfavorable in a decade or so. For American lenders, the advantage of buying the Yankee bonds is simple: they collect more interest. Foreign borrowers...
Pruitt does his share of lurking behind beefy blockers as well. "I can position myself behind my blockers so that a defensive guy has to commit himself just to see where I'm at," Pruitt says. "It's a cat-and-mouse game. He shows up on the outside, I go inside. He shows up inside, I go outside." So far, the mouse is winning; with 761 yards rushing, Pruitt is on his way to his third straight 1,000-yd. season...
Freshman Phil Evans got the goal, but credit the year's best assist to linemate Randy Millen. On a centering pass from Bob McDonald, Millen, with one man to beat, waited for the Penn defenseman to commit himself before sliding the puck over to the streaking Evans...