Word: commitments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...policy of long-range commitments. At present, specific foreign aid commitments can be made for only one year at a time. The Administration wants authority to commit economic aid for periods up to ten years, at the total rate of no more than $100 million a year in long-range commitments. A key aim: to assure governments and investors that U.S. funds will not be cut off suddenly...
...mind," many have said); not so London Drs. Iain and Pamela MacKinnon, a husband and wife team. They were impressed by recent trickles of medical evidence that women in the latter part of the menstrual cycle not only have cellular changes but are more prone at that period to commit crimes of violence and experience emotional instability. They checked 47 coroners' cases, and post-mortem examinations made it possible for them to determine at what stage of the cycle death had occurred...
...Veritas or Committed Men?": how misleading can a title of an article be? (Mr. Arnold's letter appeared on March 3.--Ed.). The alternative to Veritas is not Committed Men, or any men whatever, but Mendacium or Falsum. Think of a parallel phrase, such as, "Democracy or Committed Men." Does one exclude the other? Mr. Arnold implies that to be devoted to Truth means you cannot commit yourself to any particular claims to truth. Yet, Truth is not some pure Essence existing (and accessible) out-of-relation to particular instances of it. You have to decide whether this or that...
...every one of the 20,000 U.S. citizens who commit suicide each year, five more try it but fail, and dozens threaten it. In an effort to pinpoint the characteristics of suicidal types, two psychologists analyzed the records and personalities of 64 men-half with records of suicidal impulse, half with none-who had been in the Veterans Administration Neuropsychiatric Hospital at Los Angeles. Key findings by Drs. Edwin S. Shneidman and Norman L. Farberow in Public Health Reports...
Unfortunately, however, this particular example of election year prudence carries with it the disturbing implication that any man who speaks before a political organization automatically represents its views. Whether Hiss was a Communist is irrelevant; nor should his present ideas be a deterrent, because an organization does not commit itself to any ideology merely by inviting a man to speak. If the ADA had allowed Hiss to speak, few would have taken exception. By suddenly donning the robes of Draconian vigilance, the ADA only appears hypocritical and foolish...