Word: commitments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...class of'67 watched Watts burn the summer after its sophomore year, only to watch South Central burn just a month before its return to Cambridge this week. The Black underclass--like all people living in poverty in America--is now poorer, less educated and more likely to commit crime than 25 years...
...advocates called for a new global treaty that would deal specifically with land-based pollution. The U.S., on the other hand, favored strengthening existing international agreements to control this pollution, particularly at the national and regional levels. In the end, negotiators adopted the U.S. approach, agreeing that countries should commit themselves to cleaning up the seas but that it was premature to consider drafting a formal global treaty...
...misunderstanding, 65% of blacks believed whites thought they "have no self-discipline," but only 17% of whites actually said that; 63% rejected the idea. Though 75% of blacks believed whites thought them prone to crime, only 34% of whites were willing to say that blacks "are more likely to commit violent crimes" than whites are; 48% thought that description "does not apply...
...Joseph Papp's Public Theater. Says Finn: "The show wasn't perfect, but parts were brilliant. The score was spectacular." The reviews were so bad that he was relieved he had jury duty after it opened: "I figured that if I were in the courthouse I wouldn't actually commit suicide...
...puzzle. Thomas Hayes, a leading forensics expert, did the main detective work on a minute piece of timer recovered from the wreckage by Scottish authorities. In a recent book about the Lockerbie investigation, On the Trail of Terror, British journalist David Leppard reports that "Hayes is not prepared to commit himself publicly on whether the bomb that blew up Pan Am 103 was originally made by Khreesat and subsequently modified by timers of the sort found in possession of the Libyans." In fact, adds Leppard, "his authoritative view is that not enough of the bomb's timing device has been...