Word: commitment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...forth concrete campaign planks transcending the predictable calls for "student power" and "an ameliorated quality of life." Few had a clue what they were getting into. Most probably spent the hours after being informed of their elections wondering why they ever managed to commit three hours of their Sunday evenings to the enterprise...
...elderly who commit crimes [Sept. 20] present an increasing problem, particularly in retirement areas like South Florida. As a judge, I have presided over hundreds of cases involving senior citizens charged with shoplifting and other nonviolent crimes. Our criminal justice system, with its traditional solutions of jail, probation or stifffines, is neither appropriate nor effective in dealing with someone who has otherwise been productive and proper for 70 years. To deal with this situation, Fort Lauderdale has instituted a senior intervention program for first offenders that offers guidance, counseling and supervision that permit the individual to maintain dignity...
...last week that he accepted the principle of ministerial responsibility, but blamed the world for exploiting the Beirut killings "to massacre Israel's moral image." He appealed to Israelis to put an end to this dispute over who was to blame. "Have we as a nation decided to commit suicide?" he asked. "Can we not stop this hatred among brothers?" for Sharon the question had great personal relevance if that "hatred" persisted,he might well lose his job. -By Thomas A. Sancton...
...needed him then We could use him now, an advertisement states Beloit wants to find people willing to commit $1 million or more to our kind of school, "according to an advertisement...
Atkins said that the K-School is committed to hiring just one new woman professor in the next six years, and has failed to commit itself to hiring any new minority faculty...