Word: commitment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rose to address the group Saturday morning, a noisy audience of 1,300 greeted him with chants of "Run with a woman, run with a woman." Decorating the podium from which he spoke were arrangements of campaign buttons reading WOMAN VP NOW. But Mondale was not yet prepared to commit himself...
Using unflattened, living language does not commit one to an antiabortion, antigay or antiwelfare position. One can argue forcefully for free choice in abortion, rights for homosexuals and aid to fatherless families without pretending that the issues here are merely clinical, aesthetic or statistical. They are moral too. But to make, or even follow, moral arguments, we need language that has not yet obliterated any trace of distinctions...
...robbing another youth of his jacket and sneakers. A family-court judge ordered Martin held under New York's preventive-detention law. That meant the teenager was being confined not to ensure his appearance at trial but because he was regarded as a serious risk to commit new crimes while waiting for his case to come up. Martin and his attorney filed a class action on behalf of all children in preventive-detention in New York State, and won in two federal courts. Last week the U.S. Supreme Court overturned those decisions and ruled that preventive detention was constitutionally...
Another criteria in the treasurer search which boded well for MacDougall was that the Corporation sought a Boston area resident with enough independent wealth to insure that he could commit himself fairly heavily to the ostensibly part-time...
...some may be inaccurate, positioned later for dramatic effect. With so few clues, there are all sorts of unanswered questions: Did Custer die on the gentle hill where his body was found, or by the river as Indian tales say? Did the last troopers, as Indian veterans claimed, commit suicide to avoid being tortured? "The myths around Custer and the battle have become much bigger than the facts," says Vine Deloria, a Sioux author. "This could help set the record straight...