Word: commits
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...York recognizes adultery as the sole ground for divorce. The law thus encourages divorce-bound people to commit little white lies by establishing "residence" in states where the divorce laws are less rigid. Said Bronx Rabbi Maurice J. Bloom in a sermon last week: "It is not fair to the citizenry when only the rich can take dubious advantage of fictitious residence in another state for a brief time, and the less opulent are given an example of avoiding our laws by those who can afford it. If New York State had a proper marriage and divorce code, neither Governor...
Yale, when its $250 tuition increase goes into effect in September, 1964, will commit $400,000 a year for each of the next two years in an experimental effort to completely eliminate the group of students who are admitted but are unable to attend because they are refused necessary financial...
...brief, their research indicates that certain personality traits which ordinarily would not cause a person to commit illegal acts may be made criminogenic by environmental situations. Not all individuals respond the same way to any given set of conditions, but certain conditions do tend to develop certain personality traits...
...last month that the bill "seems almost certain to pass," told the CRIMSON yesterday that "it will in all likelihood never get to the House floor. It would be an act of political suicide for Elliott to vote for this bill, and I don't think Carl wants to commit suicide...
Another danger in Harvard's world--and one which Conway traced directly to the freedom he described--is that of "paralysis of the will, of a growing and hardening reluctance to commit oneself." "If the danger of a rigid orthodoxy is a completely closed mind," he asserted, "the danger of our particular kind of liberty is a compete open-mindedness." He said that "the kind of aristocrat Harvard produces has the duty to make his commitment." In the end, he said, "only that will justify our elitism. This wonderful Harvard world becomes a coterie to the extent that its graduates...