Word: commits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Abscam sting have only themselves to blame or can they, like Hadleyburg, blame the stranger for leading them astray? This question lies at the heart of the uproar over the tactics used to catch public officials in the act of allegedly taking a bribe. Did they willingly commit a crime, if indeed a crime was committed, since the charges have not yet been filed? Or were they tricked into wrongdoing by a Government con game that took unfair advantage of them? At stake is the integrity not only of numerous Congressmen, but also to a degree the reconstituted...
DURHAM N.C.--Two Duke University students tried to commit suicide during exam period recently...
...Pentagon officials. SEC charges have been filed against scores of other major U.S. corporations in the past few years, and Textron responded the way most others have: it did not admit guilt, but declined to put up any defense. Instead, it agreed to an injunction ordering it not to commit any such acts in the future, and to reform its practices to make sure it did not. Case closed...
...climax in a bizarre series of fade-outs that symbolize pauses between pelvic thrusts. Gere, as Julian Kaye, makes it clear that he does only straight, high-class women. He looks more embarrassed than worried when he gets framed for a handcuffs-cum-sex murder that he didn't commit in this kinky-trick movie that John Travolta should have made. Schrader filled his script with coincidences and absurd plot devices that are so ridiculous, so inconceivable they may well be true--the way True Confessions and True Love are true...
...invasion of Afghanistan lays bare the basic untruths upon which the Soviet state is founded. It did not commit an act of war in the name of Communism. Nay, it did it for the lust of empire...