Word: commitment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sosa said that the Salvadoran goverment often arrests and tortures innocent civilians and forces them to sign extra-judicial confessions of crimes that they did not commit...
Harvard lost two of its first three games--to Lehigh and Boston College--by a single point. In the B.C. game, the Crimson failed to commit an intentional foul in the closing seconds as the Eagles dribbled off the clock...
...twice. Nearly 20% of the country's workers are unemployed, taxes are the most onerous in Western Europe, and the national debt is a staggering $33 billion. While FitzGerald and his Fine Gael (Family of Irish) party called for belt tightening, Haughey used the gift of gab, refusing to commit himself to cuts and promising vaguely to stimulate growth. Nonetheless, Haughey, the strong front runner throughout the four-week campaign, stressed that coalition governments are weak and entreated voters to give him a strong majority...
...from pouring aid into El Salvador, Honduras and Costa Rica to establishing a ring of American bases around the border of Nicaragua; even, as Walter Mondale suggested during the 1984 campaign, to setting up a naval blockade to contain the Sandinistas. But why is it preferable so hugely to commit American resources? To station permanently American troops to serve as a trip wire? (That is how containment works in Europe: the principal function of American soldiers in forward positions is to die and thus bring the U.S. into any European war the Soviets might be tempted to start...
...federal court building, the handcuffed executive joined another distinguished Wall Streeter who had been arrested the night before. Timothy Tabor, 33, a former Kidder, Peabody investment banker and subsequent Merrill Lynch executive, had been picked up at his Upper East Side apartment. The charge against both men: conspiracy to commit insider trading...