Word: commitment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...crimes Marielitos commit are sometimes remarkable for their viciousness. Says Lieut. Robert Murphy, head of the Miami police department's homicide unit: "One of them killed two victims, one with a lead pipe, the other by stomping him to death with his feet. Marielitos shot at an eleven-year-old boy simply because he was a witness to a robbery. These criminals have a ruthlessness without any parallel that I've ever seen." The refugees who go wrong tend to be slight young men, gaunt and hollow-eyed, who dress in sneakers, jeans and T shirts. Many wear...
...NCAA's significantly larger bankroll has erased any similar doubts of most athletic officials outside the Ivy League. Unlike the AIAW, the NCAA pays the travelling expenses of any team or individual athlete that attends a championship event--a fact that has prompted a considerable number of schools to commit at least some of their teams to the NCAA...
...R.S.C.'s government grant (the company receives almost 40% of its approximately $12 million budget from the Arts Council). It could afford to stage only one additional new work instead of the usual five. Says Nunn: "It had to be something sufficiently rich for the whole company to commit...
...Begin's trip neared its end, he continued a persistent, gentle pressure to get Reagan to visit Jerusalem. Said Begin in a pointed farewell: "I do not say goodbye, Mr. President. I say next time, au revoir in Jerusalem." Reagan did not commit himself. Like all but a handful of the nations that still recognize Israel, the U.S. maintains its embassy in Tel Aviv. A presidential visit to Jerusalem might put Reagan in the position of appearing to accept Israeli sovereignty over the entire Holy City. And that would win the President few friends elsewhere in the ever troubled...
...than some pusher. Sometimes they actively bust heads because they think it works as a deterrent, and sometimes they just ignore everything they see, waiting for the pension 20 years will bring them. Often the job, with its endless contradictions, proves too much. As Ciello points out, Mafiosi never commit suicide, while cops kill themselves in droves...