Word: commitment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...enough that Ronald Reagan chose to use an ill-conceived bit of humor to make amends to a professional businesswomen's group. But to commit two grammatical errors in one brief remark may bring him a flood of mail from the nation's English teachers. He should have said, "If it weren't for women, we men .. ." It would appear that his grammar is as lacking as his ability to know his audience...
...nightmarish realm only beginning to be forthrightly explored. Its particular horror stems from its viola tions of the trust upon which all intimate human relations depend: it is cruelty exercised on those nearest, most vulnerable, least able or inclined to defend themselves from their attackers. For those who commit private violence, who abuse children, beat wives and rape, the usual reasons behind public violence?greed, dementia, vengeance, feral antisocial anger?do not generally apply. How to explain acts of brutality so personal and thus so specially disturbing...
Like Michels, the two Canadian and two Cuban weightlifters caught in Caracas will be banned from the Olympics by their national federa- tions. The U.S. Olympic Commit tee announced last week that spot checks of Americans will be done at all major competitions from now on. And in Los Angeles, says Dr. Daly, "we will have at least equal and perhaps better equipment than was used in Caracas. The message will be: There is no way to beat the system.' " - By Janice Castro. Reported by Steven Holmes/Los Angeles
Ironically, the release of some 250,000 pages of documents have proved to be a boomerang. The files forge stronger links between Julius Rosenberg and Soviet agents. The case against Ethel for conspiracy to commit espionage is weaker, although she was almost certainly an accessory. The nature of the evidence against Rosenberg Friend and Co-Defendant Morton Sobell suggests that he might have fared better in court had he not suddenly rushed off to Mexico. The Rosenbergs clearly recruited Brother-in-Law David Greenglass. As one of the Government's star witnesses, Greenglass testified that while serving...
...have doubts about the constitutionality of a statute that seems to impose financial penalties on those who have not been convicted of violating federal law with the attendant safeguards of due process. I question the fairness of a statute that penalizes needy students without affecting more affluent classmates who commit the same offense. I am uncomfortable with a measure that interferes with the normal relationship between universities and students by forcing educational institutions to help public a federal statute that has no educational purpose Still, our task is not to pass judgement on the wisdom of Congress in enacting this...