Word: commitment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...John E. Mack, a psychiatry professor at Harvard Medical School and academic director at the Center for Psychology Studies in the Nuclear Age, told forty people gathered in the Kirkland Junior Common Room, "I want to argue that the decision to commit non-violent civil disobedience is compatible with academic life...
TOBIAS WOLFF'S Back in the World melodiously fleshes out the improbably festive-sounding trinity of titles of these contemporary short story collections: I Am Having an Adventure, Drunk with Love and Back in the World. This collection however doesn't commit itself to either the confused soul-searching that goes on in Klass' book or the heady hothouse passions that obscure some disturbing authorial attitudes in Drunk with Love...
...existence of La Cosa Nostra, they admit it. "This case is not about whether there is a Mafia," thundered Defense Attorney Samuel Dawson. "Assume it. Accept it. There is." Nevertheless, he told the jury, "just because a person is a member of the Mafia doesn't mean he has committed the charged crime or even agreed to commit the charged crime." Dawson depicted the Commission as a sort of underworld businessmen's round table that approves new Mafia members and arbitrates disputes. Its purpose, he insisted, is "to avoid -- avoid -- conflict...
...ensure his own rise to the top of the Gambino clan. No one, however, has been charged with those slayings. The Castellano hit may not come up at the racketeering trial of Gotti, his brother Eugene and four Gambino associates. But two other murders and a conspiracy to commit murder are among 15 crimes that the Government says formed a pattern of participation in a criminal enterprise. The defendants are also accused of planning two armored-car robberies, other hijackings and gambling, and conspiracy to commit extortion...
...constitutional ones as well -- by passing a bill that would throw as much as $4 billion over the next three years into a wide array of antidrug efforts, permit the military to protect the country's borders from drug trafficking and impose a federal death penalty on those who commit murder while dealing in drugs. Across the country candidates were not only trying to top their opponents with radical proposals for tackling the problem but were challenging one another to urinating contests as a demonstration of fealty to the cause...