Word: commitment
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This latest diplomatic crisis began when the Soviet news agency TASS said that Moscow had proposed a joint statement that would commit the superpowers to negotiate on "the prevention of militarization of space." TASS also said the Soviets wanted to introduce a moratorium on the testing and deployment of antisatellite weapons and space-based missiles when proposed negotiations are scheduled to begin on Sept. 18 in Vienna. The Administration, however, also wants to look at "offensive" weapons, namely intermediate and intercontinental missiles, and it opposes the suggested moratorium since the U.S. has no operating antisatellite system and the Soviet Union...
...taking a $1 billion loss on the deal. In addition, the agency will give Continental another $1 billion to put it in better financial shape. In a final sign of support, the FDIC stated, "If, for any reason, the permanent assistance package proves to be insufficient, the FDIC will commit additional capital or other forms of assistance as may be required...
...Wednesday afternoon, Reilly was deputized to phone Ferraro in San Francisco and tell her to stand by for a call from Mondale at 6:30 p.m. But Mondale did not finally commit himself, even to his closest aides, until half an hour before the scheduled call. Then, in a meeting with Johnson, Reilly and Press Secretary Maxine Isaacs, he looked around the North Oaks den and finally said it, simply: "Let's go with Ferraro...
...junk shop and discovers within it a cache of more than 300 love letters. She spends a day reading them, vicariously participating in a passion that her own fashionable life holds at bay. In Terminal, a woman with cancer begs her husband not to interfere if she decides to commit suicide. But an agonizing dilemma then arises: How should he love her-by letting her die, or by refusing to abet their separation...
Tuesday come the platform debates, five in all. Jackson's forces will offer minority planks calling for the U.S. to adopt a "no first use" policy on nuclear weapons, cut defense spending sharply, commit itself to enforce affirmative-action goals in the hiring of minorities, and end the second, or runoff, primaries used in ten states when no candidate wins a majority of the vote. (Jackson argues that runoffs are discriminatory because blacks have a better chance of winning a plurality in a multicandidate field than outpolling a white in a head-to-head race.) Gary Hart, who commands roughly...