Word: commitment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only about 60% of the 23 million tons of U.S. grain that the Government offered to sell them, and their purchases are expected to be lower this year. At a meeting with American officials in Vienna last month, the Soviet Union's chief negotiator, Boris Gordeyev, refused to commit to any new grain orders. Said he, sounding like a closet free-enterpriser: "Like any commercial man, I will take the right time to buy cheap and sell dear...
...This time American diplomacy had helped to improve conditions within the Soviet Union. But in the absence of clear, consistent ideas about how the Soviet system really works, American efforts to make that system more compatible with U.S. interests and values have been doomed to repeat old errors and commit new ones...
...space, where the atmosphere-free environment provides the best possible view of the cosmos. Although there is no guarantee that he will have such an opportunity. Hoffman says at least that he "fully expects" to spend the rest of his life as a research scientist. Although he won't commit himself to the possibility of serving as an astronomer on some future space station. Barbara Hoffman says, "I know he would go." Asked if she would join him there, she adds, "I can't see myself wanting to do that...
...satisfied with this minimum, which is always susceptible to the real danger of explosion." This formulation follows the guidelines established by the Second Vatican Council in 1962-65, which wrestled with the still unanswered dilemma that nuclear deterrence depends on a nation's expressing the willingness to commit an immoral act-using nuclear weapons...
...institution decided to educating society should never refuse to educate its own members on some issues. Nor can it allow impressions to linger that defame members of the community. Whites do commit sexual harassment at Harvard. But University Hall is Keeping that its little secret...