Word: commitment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...design of the operational SR-71 reconnaissance plane and the cruise missile. Then someone began leaking news on Stealth. Within five days, Aviation Week, ABC-TV and the Washington Post reported on the project. On Aug. 14, Post Reporter George C. Wilson wrote that President Carter was about to commit himself to the development of a bomber "virtually invisible to enemy radar" and that it might help him counter Republican charges that he had neglected U.S. defenses. Actually, Carter has not gone that far, but the Administration is seriously considering recommending the development of a bomber using the Stealth technology...
...generals had failed to lift martial law and set a timetable for a transfer of political power to an elected civilian government, violent uprisings erupted in Seoul, Kwangju and other cities. Kim was arrested and indicted on six charges, including the capital crimes of sedition and conspiracy to commit sedition. He denied those charges, insisting that in fact he had pleaded with antigovernment students for restraint. Kim further testified that a plot to overthrow the government would hardly make sense since he had reason to believe he could win the election. In the end, the inciting of sedition charge...
...Corporation is trying only to make the ACSR credible, but those efforts may force the Corporation to commit itself to looking into shareholder resolution, and Jorge I. Dominguez, professor of Government and a former committee member, anticipates trouble if the Corporation stumbles into such a role. "I'm sure that's a bridge no one will cross until they come to it," he says. Although the eight-companies-a-year plan is still a proposal, it seems likely to pass. And committee members say it is likely that the early investigations will include familiar trouble spots--companies under scrutiny because...
...golf course and then back home. Only memories disturb his endowed existence: as This Second Coming unfolds he mentally pieces together the events of a day in his early teens when, out on a hunting trip, his father tried simultaneously to kill him and to commit suicide...
Klein won't positively commit more than the "first part" of her life to academia. Should she quit,"I've had people say to me that they think I should run for public office. I don't think I could ever do that--it's unclear to me whether individuals in public positions really can do anything," she says...