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Word: commitments (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...when people try to blame society forthe actions of individuals who, or commit crimestake drugs, what in fact they're doing is you'regiving those people a pass. You're sayingindividual and personal responsibility is not apart of it. I think...

Author: By Matthew M. Hoffman, | Title: Former Mayor Adjusts To New Role in City | 3/5/1990 | See Source »

...though, if people are poor, they'regoing to take drugs," Koch says, and immediatelycounters, "Rich people take drugs. And all poorpeople do not take drugs. Most poor people do nottake drugs. Most poor people don't commit crimes...

Author: By Matthew M. Hoffman, | Title: Former Mayor Adjusts To New Role in City | 3/5/1990 | See Source »

...cannot take drugs without becoming addicted--you can drink liquor and not become an alcoholic." While Koch agreed with a questioner that cigarettes are as addictive as hard drugs he said, "there's one little difference. I've never heard of cigarettes casuing people to go out and commit violence...

Author: By Lori E. Smith, | Title: Koch Draws Audience Fire | 3/5/1990 | See Source »

...more the nation of the great dream, the country for which we cried." Indeed not. In establishing a Jewish state, the Jewish people made a collective decision no longer to be cried for. They chose to become actors in history and not its objects. Historical actors commit misdeeds, and should be judged like all nation-states when they commit them. It is perverse to argue that because this particular nation-state is made up of people who have suffered the greatest crime in modern history, they, more than any other people on earth, have a special obligation to be delicate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Judging Israel | 2/26/1990 | See Source »

...Quakers excelled on the attack, grabbing 19 offensive boards. But the Crimson really commit suicide, when it committed a whopping 20 turnovers, compared to 11 miscues for Penn...

Author: By Andy Fine, | Title: W. Cagers Lose, 71-68, On Verge Of Elimination | 2/24/1990 | See Source »

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