Word: commitment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...touch off a loud postrecess wrangle in Congress, which must put up the money ?perhaps $100 billion eventually. But that multibillion-dollar controversy will be only the first in a long series of tormenting decisions that will involve nearly every aspect of the Administration's plan to commit a staggering $1.5 trillion over the next five years to the biggest peacetime military buildup in U.S. history. Additional arguments are in immediate prospect, or already in progress, about everything from the size of aircraft carriers to the size of pay raises for Army noncoms and Navy petty officers...
...difference in tone between the speeches reinforced a perception in Washington that relations between the two men, once warm colleagues, are strained. That at least is the way their aides perceive it. At the Pentagon, Haig is seen as being overly sympathetic to the Europeans, despite their reluctance to commit sufficient funds to beef up NATO. At the State Department, Weinberger is regarded as clumsy and even downright crude in his approach to military issues that have diplomatic overtones, such as deployment of the neutron bomb and the upgrading of Theater Nuclear Forces in Europe...
America and the Soviet Union should commit themselves to deceleration of the arms race "with the urgency of any task in human history," Everett I. Mendelsohn, professor of History of Science, said last night before an audience of more than 200 at the Institute of Politics...
Thompson, who called the SALT talks "an acceptance by the United States of the number two position in the eyes of the Soviets," said America must commit itself to several years of rapid arms expansion to catch up to the Soviets. "We must face five, six, or seven years of a crisis situation, before we are equal in force," he said...
Hammett wrote for people with a sharp, aggressive attitude toward life. They were not afraid of the seamy side of things; they lived there. Violence did not dismay them; it was right down their street. Hammett gave murder back to the kind of people that commit it for reasons, not just to provide a corpse and with the means at hand, not hand-wrought dueling pistols, curare and tropical fish. He put these people down on paper as they were and he made them talk and think in the language they customarily used for these purposes. He wrote scenes that...