Word: commiting
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...thriving sex trade create a perfect HIV breeding ground, to Beijing, for his meetings with party leaders, including the newly appointed Minister of Health, Wu Yi. Everywhere Ho went, his mission was the same: to persuade Chinese officials to step up their modest anti-AIDS efforts and commit the resources necessary to launch a comprehensive nationwide program, modeled on the projects he has begun in Yunnan...
...don’t have negative feelings toward China, and especially not the Chinese people,” she said. “Obviously you just don’t care about the Tibetans if you’re going to commit genocide and all the other things that go on in Tibet...
...administration must make campus safety a higher—and more visible—priority. Students need to be informed sooner of such incidents, and Harvard must publicly commit to institute more precautionary measures to prevent incidents like this in the future. The St. Paul’s parking lot attack should be investigated further and students—who spend almost every waking and sleeping hour in and around campus—should be included in any dialogue about safety at Harvard...
...Daisy, like many of her generation, had much she may have wished to forget. Born into the florid decay of imperial China, Daisy would live through a particular horror: she watched her own mother, forced to become a concubine, commit suicide by swallowing raw opium. Despite such early trauma, she managed to survive in Shanghai amid hellish marital troubles (her brutal first husband divorced her and seized custody of her three children), before she fled to the U.S. As Daisy exhibits symptoms of Alzheimer's, a concerned Amy takes her mother in for tests; Daisy growls, "Nothing wrong my memory...
While Summers did not commit to a fifth task force, the students said they were pleased with his response and said they were confident that the University would embrace their concerns as construction plans crystallize...