Word: commitment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hard to reduce because of the need for a steady stream of recruits and re-enlistments in lieu of a draft. The controversial strategic superweapons of the future, such as the B-1 bomber program and the MX missile, will be debated to determine whether the U.S. should commit itself to such huge funding in the years ahead, but even entirely eliminating these two programs this year would reduce actual 1983 outlays by "only" about $5 billion. Operating costs, maintenance, training and ammunition have always been favorite congressional targets because the money buys few jobs in legislators' home districts...
...statement released yesterday, Bok said a replacement member should have experience in different fields, knowledge of business and financial affairs, a concern for higher education and a great deal of time to commit to the University...
...Dixon free throw lifted the Crimson to a 43-40 edge, Minutemen Edwin Green broke his team's scoring drought to make it 43-42 with just 27 ticks on the clock. Harvard navigated the UMass press and ran 19 seconds off the clock before the Minutemen managed to commit a foul...
...Mother Teresa of Calcutta should commit murder, any court might weigh her amazing life's labor against the evil of the one deed. The murder would be the exception in a life that otherwise displayed merit and extravagantly claimed mercy. But Jack Abbott's vividly ranting book, brutal and brutalized, should have made the jury wonder which was more characteristic of the man: literature or murder. In a long and essentially tragic perspective (in which all consequences are endured, all debts paid), literature performs its redemptions. Mailer's formula is a shallow little mechanism. "Culture is worth...
Mark Rogers' selection of life under the Kremlin with the right to oppose such tyranny is the choice of cancer with the freedom to commit suicide. Alexander J. Hardy Northridge, Calif...