Word: commits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...recruitment effort this year, as in past years, has been a long trail of disappointments' and frustrations because of the admissions office's refusal to commit itself to Third World students. This year's budget, like everything else concerning student recruitment, was acquired after a long struggle. Still, the budget was insufficient to cover all the areas that needed to be covered. Later the office had the gall to require that some staff travel come out of the student budget. The students were entangled in an increasing web of bureaucratic responsibilities. Endless letter writing, continuing deadlines, forms of all types...
...assailant had qualified, through an elaborate point system, for special treatment under Boston's Major Violators program. It is hardly news in the U.S. that industrious malefactors, variously known as revolving-door or career criminals, commit crime after crime, year after year. About 7% of arrested suspects account for a quarter or more of the nation's crime. The first wholesale attack on the problem began only three years ago, when 24 cities, with federal funds and a good idea, both provided by the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration, began establishing career-criminal prosecution units. The aim: first identify...
...agency in search of a mission--witnessed the crusade to banish the killer weed from American society, a society in which recreational use of marijuana was steadily becoming more popular. Contemporary newspapers frequently ran articles of purported instances where one marijuana cigarette had led previously respectable citizens to commit crimes of violence or had sent them into fits of insanity. The stories, of course, were told in lurid detail and did much to boost sales. These imaginative stories, combined with the mistaken belief that the drug was highly addictive, led to a series of laws which, while not banning medical...
Blanton is knowing in the uses of loneliness. He suffers pain and disappointment without the crutch of self-pity There are always whisky and opportunities to commit mayhem in the name of cowboy justice. When a cow in Blanton's charge is gang-raped by three bulls from a neighboring ranch, Henry and his boys fall on them with castrating knives. But when Blanton's boss breaks a promise that could lead to a measure of financial independence, Henry submits in proud silence...
...their trade surpluses and taking some pressure off the dollar. That would indeed help, and some progress is being made. Presidential Trade Negotiator Robert Strauss will visit Tokyo this week to put the finishing touches on a U.S.-Japanese agreement designed to permit more U.S. imports into Japan, and commit Japan to pep up its economy; it would enable Japanese consumers to buy more of the goods now being exported to the U.S. But West Germany has consistently rejected pleas to speed up its economic growth, mostly out of fear of inflation...