Word: commiting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...world is full of important stories; the trick is finding fresh and compelling ways to tell them. It often helps to think big: to commit lots of talent, time and space to the effort. That's what we did last year when TIME sought to explore the mood of late-century America by sending a team of journalists rolling from town to town and coast to coast along U.S. Highway 50. This week we take a similar high-impact approach to the vital subject of healing, in a 36-page special report on a week in the life...
...student increase in aid will allow students to decrease either their loan or work obligation. Knowles said the money will allow students to commit more time to extracurricular activities or to pursue unpaid internships and research during the summer...
...President, it is doubtful that a less determined person would have been able to force Slick Willie to confess. Obviously the process has been disruptive and costly, but what would Americans have had Starr do? If we don't want to know when politicians break the law or commit immoral acts, then we'd better get rid of the special-prosecutor law. Otherwise, let's not shoot the messenger just because we don't like the message. JERRY MOORE Richardson, Texas...
...then lying about it during a deposition taken in the course of a politically motivated lawsuit, are not grounds for impeachment, much less a $40 million investigation gone awry. The President made a mistake, he suffered a "critical lapse in judgement." But the tawdry details aside, he did not commit an impeachable offense. And he should certainly not be only the second President to resign from office simply because he succumbed to the temptations of the flesh...
...Clinton skipped even his regular church service Sunday (where his transgressions were the subject of the day's sermon), while his attorney David Kendall hit the talk shows to defend his client's indefensible semantic contortion -- that he may have lied under oath about sex, but he didn't commit perjury...