Word: commits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sure, jails vary widely from two-cell rural hovels to modern urban skyscrapers. But the vast majority treat minor offenders?and the merely accused?more harshly than prisons do felons, who commit graver crimes. The jail mess is typified by New Orleans' Parish Prson, a putrid pen built in 1929 to hold 400 prisoners. It now contains 850?75% of them unsentenced. Money and guards are so short that violent inmates prey on the weak; many four-bunk cells hold seven inmates, mattresses smell of filth and toilets are clogged. Prisoners slap at cockroaches "so big you can almost ride...
...magic unknown," one source explained, "is how many men are willing to move to Radcliffe. We can get this information, not by a poll, but by asking for an earlier decision on possible housing for next year in order to get an indication of exactly how many men will commit themselves to move up to Radcliffe...
...statement, the company pledged to underwrite scholarships for 500 black students for study "at various levels from elementary school through university" and to commit profits to the "black-run Association for Education and Cultural Advancement [ASECA...
SLUGGISH, vacillating and quarrelsome throughout its two years of life, the 91st Congress could not even muster the means to die gracefully. It did not so much expire as commit suicide, victim of its ineffectual procedures, disagreement over priorities and inter-chamber acrimonies...
...conduct of public affairs in America. A case in point is the extraordinary number of military and diplomatic agreements the U.S. has made in recent years with an assortment of allies and satellites. Many of these treaties in disguise involve a vast expenditure of American money, and could commit the U.S. to aiding other countries if war broke out. More often than not, details of the commitments were kept secret from the American public until disclosed by inquisitive newsmen or equally inquisitive congressional investigators...