Word: commits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fact that several lesser powers are acquiring nuclear weapons makes decentralization all the more inevitable - and hardly reassuring. But it is obvious that the U.S. must scale down its enormous and costly worldwide commitments, many of them undertaken at that time of abnormal American predominance. The U.S. has realized that it does not have unlimited economic strength to "pay any price, bear any burden" and that even if it did, the effort would eventually be self-defeating. At his press conference last week, Henry Kissinger asserted that the U.S. "cannot pursue a policy of selective reliability," suggesting that all commitments...
...class struggle. Nonetheless, it was virtually certain that the delegates would approve the secretary's platform. The larger question was the reaction of other Italian political parties. Amintore Fanfani, the conservative secretary of the Christian Democratic Party, remains adamantly opposed. "If the Christian Democrats do not want to commit suicide," he said earlier this month, "they must say no to the compromesso storico tomorrow, as well as today." But left-wing Christian Democrats are not that opposed to the idea, nor are some socialists and members of the small but influential Republican Party...
Harris who ran a sort lived campaign for the presidency in 1971 was among the first Democratic candidates to commit himself to the race...
...Governing Boards of Harvard and the Radcliffe Trustees, both institutions will have finally taken the steps that make total corporate merger and the eventual equality of women inevitable. Progress toward these two goals will undoubtedly continue to be all too slow, but the Strauch proposals would at least commit Harvard to a program that must eventually have equality as its outcome...
...Nazis. "God has reserved to himself the right to determine the end of life, because He alone knows the goal to which it is His will to lead it," Bonhoeffer wrote. "Even if [a person's] earthly life has become a torment for him, he must commit it intact to God's hand, from which it came...