Word: commitments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Joseph M. Dodge; for Britain, Sir Oliver Franks; for West Germany, Chancellor Adenauer's influential banker friend, Hermann Abs. Perhaps Jean Monnet would be added from France, and Escott Reid from Canada. In time, Japan might also be asked to chip in. The idea would be to commit combined large-scale capital investment to those economies, under control of an international authority independent of the donor countries...
Some newspaper editors like the idea. "I think it's an intelligent device for distributing news releases and handouts from commercial concerns," said the Los Angeles Mirror-News' managing editor, Ed Murray. "A machine like this doesn't commit you to use the stuff, and I think one's judgment of the news value is likely to be better if it comes in by a machine. And it helps cut down on all that opening of letters...
Last week Tiger Song's nearly completed purge ran into unexpected opposition. Assemblyman Um Sang Sup, a member of the opposition Democratic Party, charged that Song's ruthless methods had prompted 153 officers to commit suicide rather than face courts-martial. Some, said Um, had actually taken their lives "while being questioned." The chief of staff disputed the suicide figures, but his own statistics of accomplishment were stern enough. For grafting on the job, he had fired, in the past nine months, six major generals, nine brigadiers and 1,683 other officers of field and company grade, including...
When Dr. Hunt began opening more doors and taking bars off windows, Dutchess neighbors were worried that AWOL patients would commit sex offenses or crimes of violence. In two years, there has been no such incident. Now Dr. Hunt challenges civic groups: "What Dutchess County community of more than 5,000 people has a better record than that...
...success and status. "This is not surprising," said a Harvard professor. "There is no private business that they might enter. The practice of law cannot be very appealing. What remains but science? In science a man can have an attractive living standard, and he does not have to commit himself politically...