Word: commits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...discontent with McGovern among labor's rank and file, and he has skillfully exploited it. Nor does he want to implicate big labor-his big labor-in what he expects to be a disastrous Democratic defeat. Why spend our money, he has said, to "help a political party commit suicide?" Better to drift with the political tides and make the best deal possible with the sure winner. Says an industrial union leader: "He believes he can bring Nixon around, that he can do business with the guy in a way that will serve labor's best interests over...
Oufkir's error this time, said Hassan, had been "to think he could commit the perfect crime." The plot was later described to the King by two of the captured airmen. One of the pilots, Lieut. Colonel Mohammed Amekrane-who suffers from an incurable kidney ailment-disclosed the details after Hassan coldly reminded him that if military justice did not finish him off, his illness would. As Hassan related it, the plan called for the plane to be shot down at sea "so as to leave no trace." With the deaths of the King, three of his children...
...person who doesn't want to commit himself to any team endeavor there are also sports for those who would rather play alone. There is sculling on the Charles (Harvard provides shells); swimming, either at the IAB or at Adams House (for those who prefer the natural approach--suits are optional); there is frisbee in the Yard, or tennis or subway riding or getting wrecked and bicycling to Fresh Pond; dodging traffic and Hare Krisna dancers in the Square or going to the ball park, running from muggers, sitting-in or marching when you get tired of sitting...
Worry. Only one Geneva agency has ever gone so far as to commit itself to management analysis; the study was done by McKenzie & Co., a New York management consultant firm. The ILO, which was founded in 1919, is still a bit unnerved by the experience. "It left us a house divided between two cultures," says an ILO administrator, "one following the new ways and the other continuing to do what it had always done. It also left us feeling that we aren't a family business any longer. They asked us questions about what we thought our purpose...
What sort of creature could commit such an act? Could the seemingly random slaughter have any kind of meaning...