Word: commits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Without powerful leaders willing to commit resources to schools, communities and minority-owned businesses beyond the Yard, nothing will change. Without trustworthy role models for the minority children of this country to admire and take hope from, nothing will change...
...infidelity might come up, and this would afford them a chance to start defusing such stories. It happened as they foresaw; they readily affirmed that their marriage had been through some shaky times, but insisted it was now rock solid. Implicit message from Clinton: Even if I did commit adultery, so what? It's in the past, and so long as Hillary is satisfied about that and will stick by me, it's no one else's business...
...cavalier toward the use of military force, perhaps stemming from the fact that foreign service officers would not be the ones risking their lives; in the case of Bosnia, the State Department favors an increased U.S. role. The Defense Department, on the other hand, has been very hesitant to commit U.S. forces when the objectives are political and unachievable, if defined at all; the Pentagon is dead set against any intervention in Bosnia, which would quickly turn into a quagmire...
...City Year itself is an urban peace corps of 220 young people who commit themselves to a year of community service," Schorr said...
When everyone has a gun, every argument carries the potential for deadly violence. The fbi reports that in 1990 nearly 3 out of 4 juvenile murderers used guns to commit their crimes. "A gun in the hands of a 14-year-old is much more dangerous than in the hands of a 41-year-old," says James Fox, dean of Northeastern University's College of Criminal Justice. "He has little investment in his life, and he doesn't know the meaning of death...