Word: commitments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...other theme in American policy that the Soviets found so objectionable-that their leadership is illegitimate, aberrational and doomed-resounded through Reagan's rhetoric for nearly two years. The President repeatedly charged that the Soviets "reserve unto themselves the right to commit any crime, to lie, to cheat" and would end up on "the ash heap of history...
Unfortunately, these may be the outcomes of all these blundering attempts to subordinate the Olympics to matters of politics and principle. What sane nation would agree in advance to commit the enormous financial and administrative resources necessary to stage the games when the possibility of a boycott looms so large...
...look at crime at every level from the microscopic thoughts of an individual to view-points as globally social as possible. "At the end of the course we conclude that a person's individual behavior does say something about their actions. Sooner or later a decision to commit a crime boils down to an individual's choice and their behavior on that choice...
Today, "some students complain he tends to take too much of an individual approach to crime," says Trevor W. Nagel a section leader in Social Analysis 12. More important than individual behavior that would induce a person to commit a crime, the students feel that more of an emphasis should be placed on a macrosociological perspective." Herrnstein says students who say he emphasized individual behavior obviously have not yet finished all the required reading...
Most state laws are aimed at malefactors who use computers to commit such conventional crimes as robbery and embezzlement. The Massachusetts and California bills are directed primarily at computer trespassers and criminals who deal in data, not dollars. These misdeeds range from changing school grades to deleting invoices in stores and altering credit-rating information. Other data-based crimes involve the theft of mailing lists, which can be copied and then sold, and the pilfering of oil-company drilling results, which can be worth millions to a competing firm. Today on some computer networks, credit card numbers are traded like...