Word: commitment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ways of combating the problem. Said Mulroney: "We have broken a three-year deadlock by agreeing to our common and shared responsibility to preserve our common environment." Added Reagan: "I couldn't be happier about getting this under way and off dead center." The agreement, however, did not actually commit the Reagan Administration to take any action on acid rain...
...date counsel on how to minimize legal exposure--for example, by drilling operatives on what to do and say when they are arrested. Using the shield of attorneyclient confidentiality, full-time Mob lawyers lend their offices as unbugged meeting places for the planning of new schemes. When lawyers commit crimes to "protect the leaders of criminal cartels," said Irving Kaufman, commission chairman and New York federal appeals court judge, "the result is not only a crisis of confidence in the bar, but a law- enforcement problem of serious magnitude...
...three specifically focusing on women are taught by a junior faculty member who will be on leave next fall and whose future at Harvard is equally uncertain. While Women's History Week demonstrated decisively the enthusiasm on campus for women's studies, unless the committee and the University commit to establishing a real program the most students can hope for is a week of excitement each February...
...girl was carrying a transmitter monitored by law-enforcement officers. Moments after Paris left West, ostensibly to buy cigarettes, the police swept in and charged him with the murders. They later arrested another of the victims' daughters, who allegedly had promised to pay her then boyfriend West to commit the crime. But West apparently never got his hands on any money--or on his luscious decoy. "He's ugly," Paris said, "and I'm not into add-water-and-stir romances." She added, "We had a date to meet his mother. I guess that...
...excellent job of conveying Hitchcock's message that in the isolating circumstances of modern society ideas can easily flourish into ideologies, dangerously ripe for adoption by a disturbed individual. In Rope, the philosophy of an intellectual, Rupert Cadell (Mark Dolan), that the privileged few have the right to commit murder is adopted up by the deeply emotionally and intellectually insecure Brandon (Cyres Sanal). Brandon assuming he is one of the privileged few, sets out to test Rupert's philosophy by attempting to carry off the perfect murder. He kills a Harvard graduate (David) and has a party the night...