Word: commitment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Habash also refused to commit his Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine to Khadafy's proposed campaign of violence, the sources added, and Ahmed Jebril, head of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command, "showed little enthusiasm...
...graver concern, he insisted, was the U.S. challenge. "There is only one pressure," he said. "That is the military, political and economic pressure of the United States." The Nicaraguan people, he added, "see the U.S.-sponsored counterrevolution destroy the schools, health centers, cooperatives. This causes people to commit themselves more readily to the patriotic military service." The "so-called Third World countries," he continued, must also worry. "If the U.S. invades Nicaragua," he said, "then this endangers the security of all developing countries...
...chooses the death penalty. Bad move, as the seer Tiresias tells Creon, because decreeing the death penalty gets one prematurely sent to to Hades. Acting like a god isn't advisable in Greek drama, and in the end Creon pays for it. His son and wife both commit suicide...
...trying to incorporate a new defensive system this year and that is causing us to commit a lot of fouls," said Delaney Smith. "We are trying to do too much too fast, and it is costing us in the foul department...
Delaney Smith also praised her team's defense, which surrendered the lowest point total to a Crimson opponent in over two years and forced the Lady Hawks to commit 35 turnovers...