Word: commitment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Concerning the term "monk barbecue show," Viet Nam is a strange country where people often commit spectacular suicides before the gates of people whom they wish to curse. I find that custom barbaric. My aim was to try to stop the spreading of bad examples by ridiculing grotesque customs...
...begin with, Wilson's insistence that poverty and unemployment may not cause crime is ridiculous. The reports he cites as evidence that giving money to poor people doesn't affect their propensity to commit crimes are all confined to short periods of time, usually a couple of years. The point is not that an ex-convict getting work-release aid turns back to crime within a few months; the fact remains that upward mobility over a generation or longer enables individual families and broad demographic groups to distance themselves from the types of crime endemic to lower-class American life...
...issue of violent crime, the wealthy once again commit crimes that put the average street murderer to shame. Last June, for example, the Wall Street Journal reported that the federal government decided about three years ago not to order Ford Motor Co. to recall and fix 10 million faulty trucks it had produced. The vehicles are capable of suddenly backing up by themselves and killing people. Ford didn't recall the cars; it saved $100 million by sending out warning letters and stickers...
...Despite the accounts of torture from refugees, religious groups. Amnesty International and others, the U.S. has stepped up arms sales to Duvalier. Thousands have fled Duvalier's reign of terror, hoping to return to a free country some day. Duvalier, with American guns and dollars, has shown he will commit the most brazen crimes to prevent that day from coming...
...draw the line between victim and offender? At age 18? You can't expect a kid who grows up thinking he can get away with everything to stop breaking the law on his 18th birthday. At certain crimes? Then you give the green light for kids to commit, say, petty theft. At multiple offenses? Even more than the one-time offender, a kid who commits several crimes needs help, not punishment...