Word: commits
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...potential clincher: Colin Powell, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has told the White House that the only way to make sure of Saddam's defeat would be once more to commit American ground troops. British military sources estimate that as many as 100,000 to 200,000 would be required -- and that if they had to be sent into combat, they would take far heavier casualties than last year. Moreover, this time the casualties would be all American: London and such U.S. allies as France and Egypt want no part of the reported scheme. More flag-draped coffins...
Some elderly parents are encouraged by their children to commit suicide because their suffering is too devastating, or because the economic benefits accrued by their death would allow their children to live more prosperously...
Bush paid a high political price in exchange for this thin gruel. By pressing Tokyo to commit itself to purchase specific quantities of U.S. products, Bush abandoned his long-held free-trade principles for less competitive "managed trade," in which governments agree to pressure private industries to meet preset goals. Trying typically to have it both ways, the President repeatedly warned that any departure from free trade would damage the U.S. economy, which has become increasingly dependent on sales of American exports. Arriving in Washington on Friday, he denied that the Tokyo accords were tantamount to protectionism...
...their superior mobility, devastating firepower and napalm to help the flagging ARVN. Enormous American armored personnel carriers called M-113s, impenetrable to Vietcong weapons and armed with terrifyingly powerful machine guns, began hauling ARVN troops around. There were no American ground troops, and Kennedy steadfastly refused to commit any, but Americans were piloting helicopters, fighter bombers and APCs, and serving in that most ambiguous of roles, as military advisors. Beyond hardware, the Kennedy Administration never came to grips with the true politics of the war and of Vietnam; instead, they stood by the hopelessly corrupt and unpopular regime...
...meaningless. Precisely which sites will be open to inspection and how the monitors will operate are questions that have not been resolved. The Prime Ministers of the two Koreas expect to close the holes and sign a formal pact later this month. Even so, the agreement still fails to commit North Korea either to signing the International Atomic Energy Agency's nonproliferation treaty or to IAEA inspections...