Word: commitment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard should commit at least 25 per cent of all its residential property to the leased public housing program...
...Harvard immediately commit resources for the development of 3000 housing units, half of which must be devoted to the elderly and low-income families of Cambridge...
...with graphs showing abnormal brain activity, or other biological symptoms, may be unwilling to concede insanity unless these factors are present. Calculating the effects his testimony will have, one expert may overstate a judgment because he knows that a jury's finding of insanity will start proceedings to commit the offender to a mental institution; another may be influenced by the thought that more rehabilitation will be possible in an enlightened prison than a backward asylum...
Moreover, in zones of traditionally heavy infiltration, they presented convincing evidence that they were indeed attempting to move in large ground forces?though they still did not commit all of some 22 regiments pulled out of northernmost I Corps last fall (see map, p. 27). To counter that most alarming of threats, the allies last week mounted two large-scale counteroffensives, virtually the first of such major sweeps of the Abrams era. West of Saigon, some 10,000 troops from three U.S. divisions, using tanks and armored vehicles, swept through sections of the huge, French-owned Michelin rubber plantation...
...court Judge Edward Lawrence conceded that her motive had been a moral one. But he was not inclined to minimize her offense. "People may commit murder in the heat of passion," he said, "but that doesn't excuse murder. People may write obscenity for various reasons, but that doesn't excuse obscenity." While the state charge against her was dropped, Mrs. Timbrook pleaded guilty to violating the local ordinance. She faces penalties of up to 90 days in prison and $500 fine at her sentencing next month. Eady, who comes to trial next month, is not likely...