Word: commitments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...would those environmentalists ever let that go? If I just went up there and said I was sorry? I went on TV and said I was sorry. I said a dozen times that we're going to clean it up. But people keep saying that I don't commit. I don't know what the hell that means. What do you do when you commit? Do you hang yourself or hold a gun to your head and say, "I'm gonna squeeze it five times, and if there's not a bullet in there I'll be all right...
...last days of a ravaging disease, patients and their families face all but unbearable decisions. Is there a right to die? To commit suicide? To be killed on request? As the private dilemmas multiply, they have become the public province of interest groups, policymakers and the U.S. Supreme Court...
When one audience member suggested that the violence might be caused by needing money to buy the drugs, Koch said "You don't commit murder for10 bucks, you do it because your brain is swisscheese...
...While in jail they're not commiting crimes,"said Koch. The audience member said that prisonersfrequently commit assaults in jail. Kochresponded: "They're assaulting other prisoners."And the woman retorted, "prisoners are humanbeings also" and sat down to thundering applause...
Armed with the right of recusal, the individual achieves Emersonian self- reliance. He becomes something like a Third World country that has nuclear capability: he can commit the annihilations of his choice in the privacy of his own mind. Every man a king...