Word: commitment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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North, who was fired from his job as a National Security Council aide in late 1986, said: "I did not commit any crime. I intend to fight the allegations of wrongdoing for as long as necessary...
...have a commitment to the urban area," Stern says. "There's a need for people to work in urban areas and commit themselves." The problem with urban schools, Stern says, is the high turnover rate among teachers and administrators, which creates general instability in the system. "It just gets worse and worse because you get less support and less opportunity. The good [teachers] leave and go somewhere else and there's more turnover...
...unflinching account, published anonymously in the Jan. 8 Journal of the American Medical Association, was the first such confession ever to appear in a U.S. medical journal. With stark candor and dramatic detail, it spotlighted one of U.S. medicine's most controversial issues: the extent to which American doctors commit mercy killings. The report has prompted a storm of protest and a flurry of letters to J.A.M.A., most of which were from physicians who condemned the resident's behavior as both illegal and unethical. New York City Mayor Edward Koch was so horrified by the J.A.M.A. account that he asked...
...more and read again, because the words are frozen upon the page and therefore have a sort of timeless status. TV rushes headlong through real time, and given the constrictions of schedule, it is often a second-rate instrument with which to pursue the truth. The written word can commit the profoundest treacheries with the truth, but the hope of writing is at least to preserve the active integrity of the brain that is receiving the words. Television, flowing into an inherently passive mind, sometimes has darker ambitions...
...During my four years at Harvard, I saw all of them commit horrendous crimes and I only wish--I hope you'll agree--that they could have suffered more...