Word: commits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Corporation is trying only to make the ACSR credible, but those efforts may force the Corporation to commit itself to looking into shareholder resolution, and Jorge I. Dominguez, professor of Government and a former committee member, anticipates trouble if the Corporation stumbles into such a role. "I'm sure that's a bridge no one will cross until they come to it," he says. Although the eight-companies-a-year plan is still a proposal, it seems likely to pass. And committee members say it is likely that the early investigations will include familiar trouble spots--companies under scrutiny because...
...golf course and then back home. Only memories disturb his endowed existence: as This Second Coming unfolds he mentally pieces together the events of a day in his early teens when, out on a hunting trip, his father tried simultaneously to kill him and to commit suicide...
Klein won't positively commit more than the "first part" of her life to academia. Should she quit,"I've had people say to me that they think I should run for public office. I don't think I could ever do that--it's unclear to me whether individuals in public positions really can do anything," she says...
...victims from complaining to camp authorities. Monroe County Circuit Court Judge James W. Rice says that one boy who appeared in his court seeking release from the camp "told me that he had a knife held to his throat by a group of older boys. They demanded that he commit a homosexual act." The youth was sent to live with relatives in Florida. Some Cubans also have slashed themselves to gain admittance to the safety of the camp hospital. One young man with deep knife cuts in his left forearm told TIME Correspondent Steven Holmes: "I did it to myself...
...Sakai, 53, captain of the Fuji Maru, a ship carrying Subaru cars to the U.S., discovered upon docking at Los Angeles harbor for refueling that more than 200 of the autos were damaged by water leaks in the cargo hold. Considering himself responsible for the accident, Sakai attempted to commit harakiri. When that failed, he slit his throat...