Word: commitment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...where he has just bought a $128,000 house, then fly to Los Angeles for the Rose Bowl game. A fan of U.S.C. Running Back O. J. Simpson, the 1968 Heisman Trophy winner, Nixon is thought to favor the Trojans over Ohio State. But naturally he declined to commit himself in advance...
...Jagan's anger was presumably aroused by Schlesinger's policy advice to JFK: "An independent British Guiana under Burnham (if Burnham will commit himself to a multiracial policy) would cause us many fewer problems than an independent British Guiana under Jagan...
...stock in his com pany, which imports Burroughs business machines. The executive cropped his hair in the military style and visited Yamamoto's grave near Tokyo to offer his prayers. He asked the admiral's spirit, he says, for forgiveness for the "many mistakes I might commit in portraying him." Now Kagitani drives to the movie set in his white Cadillac while two secretaries read him his lines to memorize...
...principles involved have a bearing on the issue raised by Professor Putnam, though I did not speak on this in the meeting. The independence of the University, as I understand it, means that, within the limits of moral tolerance, the University is not committed to any one political position, just as the outside society does not impose on it any one doctrinal orthodoxy--though in the past this was the rule. The Putnam motions would, in my opinion, if they prevailed, commit the Faculty to a specific general political position which comes very close to a doctrinal orthodoxy. The rationale...
...former Defense Secretary could never be persuaded of AMSA's immediate merit. He argued that the current B-52s and the troublefraught new FB-llls could be modified with advance defense-penetration devices that would make them effective into the mid-70s. Further, he was reluctant to commit the nation to a vast defense expenditure (210 FB-llls would cost about $1.5 billion, 210 AMSAs would cost $8.1 billion) in view of the gap between development time and intelligence estimates. Under normal circumstances, it would take eight to ten years to develop and deploy AMSA from the date...