Word: commitments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pathologist from Royal Oak, Mich., he has long been a pugnacious maverick, recommending, among other things, a scheme whereby doctors would render death-row patients unconscious so their living bodies could be used for medical experiments. In recent years Kevorkian has fought hard for a patient's right to commit suicide and a doctor's right to help. Last fall he invented the easily replicable suicide machine using $45 worth of hardware and tried to advertise it in a local medical journal. When the editors refused, he peddled the story to the local newspapers and soon found himself...
...everyone is prepared to dig into the B.S. program," he says. "The B.A. option serves a valuable purpose by letting people who are less certain that they want to commit themselves to the rigor of [the B.S. program] still get an outstanding education while preparing them to go on to do graduate engineering work." Brockett notes that many students who have earned the B.A. degree have gone on to attend prestigious graduate programs...
...story on the Indian middle class. Incensed that his wife had been snapped in her swimsuit, the man attacked Nickelsberg, twisting the camera straps around the photographer's neck. For 45 minutes, Nickelsberg and the assailant wrangled over the film's fate. Finally, after the man threatened to commit acts more terrible than any Nickelsberg had seen in places like the war zones of Afghanistan, our photographer agreed to give up nine rolls of exposed film. The man said the rolls would be taken to Paris and processed to remove only the sensitive frames. But when picture editor Barbara Nagelsmith...
...never let things settle into a stable pattern; from time to time, they would commit a new outrage...
...part it is a double entendre because the animals in the Burgess Shale are so peculiar and wonderful. It is also because the movie illustrates this fundamental concept of contingency: that is, George Bailey is about to commit suicide because Mr. Potter has stolen some money, which is going to drive Bailey's firm into bankruptcy, and he figures his life has been utterly insignificant. He says, "I wish I had never been born," and then follows that famous ten-minute scene that shows the town of Bedford Falls had George Bailey never been born. It is an alternate reality...