Word: commitments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...crew team coach last week rescued a man who apparently attempted to commit suicide by walking into the icy waters of the Charles River in the late afternoon...
...past three years Massachusetts has been lurching from one crisis to the next, while state government ran on automatic pilot," Dukakis said before reiterating his own plan to commit 40 percent of all state revenue growth to local...
...that eschewed both moralistic crusading and escapist isolationism. The subtlest critique of our policy held that our emphasis on national interest ran counter to American idealism. On this thesis, Americans must affirm general values or they will lack the resolution and stamina to overcome the Soviet challenge; America must commit itself to a crusade against Communism, not just to geopolitical opposition to Soviet encroachment, or its policy will be based on quicksand. But obsession with ideology may translate into an unwillingness to confront seemingly marginal geopolitical challenges because they appear not to encapsulate the ultimate showdown-and thus lead...
...decision for a statesman is whether to commit his nation or not. There is no middle course. Once a great nation commits itself, it must prevail. It will acquire no kudos for translating its inner doubts into hesitation. However ambivalently it has arrived at the point of decision, it must pursue the course on which it is embarked with a determination to succeed. Otherwise, it adds a reputation for incompetence to whatever controversy it is bound to incur on the merits of its decision...
Most students agree that surviving years of "exam hell" provides one common experience, a bond that lasts through life. But there are those who do not survive. The pressure to do well can become so intense that some students commit suicide, even before attempting college entrance exams. The teen-age suicide rate in Japan is 17.6 per 100,000 (in the U.S. it is 10.9), and almost all of it is thought to be related to academic stress. This January one ronin electrocuted himself because he was afraid to take the college entrance exam a second time. Indeed, the universities...