Word: commitments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Plainly, although Rose is crouched just ten hits from 4,000, only 201 behind Ty Cobb, there is no room for him in Philadelphia any more. One day next month, the Phillies must commit to another $1 million for Rose or sever him at $300,000. While management insists that no decision has been made, Rose simply does not believe that, and he is ready to shop himself around "to any team with a chance to win, because I don't think I could play if there was no chance to win." Or maybe it is time...
There will rabble to a 825.000 robbery at Harvard this year, still University officials say they knew who will commit the crime...
...arenas slamming their doors to traveling troupes of Soviet athletes, Moscow is being coy about its participation in Los Angeles. "Perverting the Olympic ideals," the triweekly newspaper Soviet Culture reports, "American Big Business has seized control of the preparations of the Games." The Soviets do not have to commit themselves until June...
...save face. If you want a country like the Soviet Union to accept responsibility, you have to assume it acted out of innocence. From the beginning, the U.S. should have said that it regarded the shooting down of KAL Flight 007 as an act the Soviets would never knowingly commit, that it was an unfortunate tragedy. This approach would have presented some chance of eliciting an apology and compensation. The line our Government took only fueled the Soviets' paranoia...
...professors say a critical juncture is fast approaching for the program. In the next two years, a decision is going to have to be made, whether to commit the section entirely to the integrated classes. "We've taken as much time as we can [for bridge periods] and still maintain the traditional boundaries," says Horwitz. "If we're going to be integrated, we're going to have...