Word: commitment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...jury deliberated for three days before finally rendering a verdict that was almost as mystifying as the case itself. The jury found Tafoya guilty only of two misdemeanors: third-degree assault and conspiracy to commit this assault. Maximum sentence: 24 months and a $5,000 fine...
...been convicted of attempted murder and conspiracy to commit murder, as the prosecution charged, he would have faced up to 24 years in prison...
Unfortunately, they have refused to go further--to ensure that we will not only pay lip service to the traditional discrimination against Blacks and others, but also take concrete action to increase minority representation. The law review staff should this week commit itself to electing a specific number of minority editors at the next possible opportunity. The review staff should leave the decision of when to discard special provisions for minorities to a future body of review editors--which will be better able to understand minority needs because it will include a significant number of minorities...
Your magazine falsely reported that I promised President Reagan my vote in favor of the sale of AWACS planes if the vote in the Senate was close. To the contrary, I told President Reagan that I would not commit my vote one way or the other until I had heard the debate in the Senate chamber...
...relationship between candidates and delegates. The commission is re-examining three main questions here: whether delegates should commit themselves to a candidate before the national convention: whether candidates should have the right of approval over their specific delegates; whether delegates' votes should be bound on the convention floor, with candidates granted the right to replace delegates who violate this rule. (The last question deals with the infamous "Rule 11H," the center of the rules battle between Kennedy and former President Carter in the 1980 Democratic Convention...