Word: commitment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...paid the compensation that the woman had collected, because he was not considered as an individual with his merits either, but as a representative of a class or a group. The person who collected the compensation did not suffer the injustice; the person who paid the compensation did not commit the injustice." Where, Mansfield wanted to know, was the justice in that...
...Senators gave their colleague a break. They recommended that the Senate postpone the vote on expulsion until Federal Judge George Pratt has ruled on an appeal of Williams' conviction, probably by November. The Senator has claimed that he was "entrapped" by federal agents, who led him to commit crimes he was not otherwise disposed to commit. Says he: "There are major matters still confronting the court...
...great celestial slingshot, it was sent hurtling off toward Uranus on a new course created by the powerful pull of Saturn's gravity. NASA's new boss, James Beggs, hailed the flight as "one of the really great scientific achievements of our age." But he refused to commit the Reagan Administration to any new space endeavors, not even a mission to intercept Halley's comet on its reappearance in 1986 for the first time in 76 years...
...deep educational trouble. But felons and drug addicts need not apply. If the program sometimes succeeds with hard cases where public schools have failed, it is partly because students who apply see the program as a last chance. While some drop out right away, those who stay usually commit themselves to a six-month residential program that is a cross between boot camp and boarding school. Says one South Bronx administrator: "If students went home at 5 p.m. to ghetto conditions, you would defuse 70% of what they learn." Job Corps staff not only provide vocational and remedial training...
...premenstrual syndrome. Days or even two weeks before menstrual bleeding begins, many women experience tenderness and swelling of the breasts, migraine headaches, abdominal bloating and acne. They become lethargic, irritable and depressed. Researchers contend that severely distressed women are apt to have accidents, abuse their children or commit suicide or violent crime...