Word: commitment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...these people are conflict, and the tactics employed in Korea and in Vietnam tend to show that "fire power-attrition" is questionable, something should be done to bring this matter to the attention of as many voters as possible before Administration budgets commit this country to more of the same...
...once one abandons the initial shock at the unexpected decision the insanity defense of Hinckley's lawyers and psychiatrists seems well grounded in the Anglo-American justice tradition. That tradition punishes people for two reasons for crimes they knew they were committing, and for having had free will over the decision to commit the crime...
...Habib needed the time to persuade the P.L.O. to submit to Lebanese government authority. Arens made no formal reply, but Israeli guns finally fell silent 24 hours later than Haig had requested. However, an aide traveling with Begin in the U.S. last week told TIME that Israel would not commit itself to a formal cease-fire but would consider arrangements to allow the P.L.O. to depart from the capital peacefully. Said the aide: "We don't mind at all if the P.L.O. evacuates Beirut. We won't fire at anyone who does not fire...
This battle rages through his books: in the old fishing village of St. Botolphs, in Manhattan apartments and in privileged communities named Shady Hill, Bullet Park or Proxmire Manor. The warriors drink too much, commit adultery, contemplate and sometimes execute murder. They ride trains, accepting a shuttle in lieu of a destination. They feel themselves inexplicably blessed and damned. Occasionally, they sense redemption in "the perfumes of life: sea water, the smoke of burning hemlock, and the breasts of women...
...perhaps a natural mistake, but the entire meaning of democracy depends upon correcting it whenever the powerful slip into that delusion. Napoleon once wrote: "They charge me with the commission of great crimes. Men of my stamp do not commit crimes." Richard Nixon evidently had some such Napoleonic conception of his exemptions. In his interview with David Frost in 1977, Nixon stated his basic mistake: "Well, when the President does it, that means it is not illegal." If it had no other purpose or consequence, the agony of Watergate would have accomplished something if it succeeded in teaching Richard Nixon...