Word: commits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...group passed a resolution condemning the Department's decision to "fire" Bowles, demanded that the Department commit itself to teaching radical economics, and called a student-Faculty meeting of the Department for Monday afternoon to discuss the Bowles case...
Luria, Sedgwick Professor of Biology at MIT, said. "The uniqueness of this center is that MIT has been the only non-medical institution to commit itself financially to cancer research on this scale...
...also quite an accomplishment to go through a game and commit 38 turnovers. On a good night, a team should probably make only 10 or 15 errors. In the second half, the Crimson gave the ball up 22 times on mistakes. One of the supposed strong points of the Harvard attack is the fast break, but in statistics kept by the Crimson, the team lost the ball 14 times on breaks for the hoop alone...
TROOP WITHDRAWAL ISSUE. We reject this allegation [that there are some 100,000 to 145,000 North Vietnamese troops in the South]. This story has been, and continues to be, a pretext for the U.S. to commit aggression in South Viet Nam. We receive wholehearted support from North Viet Nam as from other countries, but the people's liberation forces in the South are under the Provisional Revolutionary Government. To demand the departure of these forces is to demand the elimination of the P.R.G. This is totally unacceptable. This is an issue between the P.R.G. and the Saigon government...
Shortly after that election, Yablonski, his wife and daughter were murdered. Washington, which had never shown much interest in the murky affairs of the U.M.W., suddenly got busy. Two union officials, one of them a member of Boyle's hand-picked executive board, were indicted for conspiracy to commit murder; five other individuals have been convicted of murder. Yablonski's two sons, Kenneth and Chip, brought suit to set aside the election. A U.S. district court agreed, and a new one was ordered...