Word: commitment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...University has issued a dangerous invitation to its students to commit acts of racial harrassment with ever greater intensity until they find the limits of impunity. If, as North House Senior Tutor Robert L. Franklin stated to The Crimson, the Ad Board's change in decision rests on "the nature of the offense as well as the person's personal characteristics and how the person has responded to probation," we still fail to see how Williams may play football...
Intelsat began getting suspicious a year ago, when Charles Gerrell, an Arkansas mortgage broker who was later convicted with Colino of conspiracy to commit fraud, demanded payment of a commission for arranging a construction loan. A spot internal audit discovered that no such payment was due. Further auditing by Peat Marwick revealed other oddities. In early December 1986, on his return from a jaunt to Australia, Colino found his eighth-floor office sealed off by armed guards. He was escorted from the building shouting, "I'm taking names! I'm going to kick butts when I get back in power...
...center of the movie is Pablo (Eusobio Poncela), a famous movie director whose sister (Carmen Maura) is a transsexual. Pablo dreams of a lover who will adore him completely but he chases young Juan, who will not commit to him. "I'm typing the letter I want to receive," Pablo writes Juan, "if you don't mind, sign it and send it back...
...offered by Ortega. During their meeting with Reagan, the contra leaders proposed that the President secure renewed funding from Congress, then place the military portion of that aid in an escrow account. The money would become available only if Managua broke the cease-fire. Though the Administration refused to commit itself to the suggestion, Assistant Secretary of State Elliott Abrams called it "basically a good idea...
Hard drugs are illegal, but only dealers are liable for prosecution; users are not arrested unless they commit other crimes. The Dutch are still experimenting with how to handle their 16,000 heroin addicts, a number that is significantly higher in proportion to the population than the estimated addicts in West Germany, Britain and France. In the late '70s, Amsterdam licensed four cafes to distribute heroin to addicts. The result was a spurt in drug-related crime and 30 heroin-overdose deaths a year. The city scrapped the scheme in 1980. Today, whenever a junkie is arrested for robbery...