Word: commits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even when irredentism does not lead to open conflict between countries, it tends to cause misery and injustice within them. The occupying powers are so intent on righting old wrongs done to their ancestors that they commit new wrongs against the people now living in the disputed territory...
...best way to treat the mentally ill. Attitudes changed in the 1950s and '60s as tales of abuse in giant institutions multiplied. New drugs were introduced that helped control mental illness, and a concern for the civil rights of the disturbed led state legislatures to make it difficult to commit people to hospitals against their will...
...points for the week but down almost 500 points from its peak in July. Other markets have been hit even harder. In the shadow of Tokyo's debacle, Taiwan's exchange has fallen 80% since February, a collapse so sharp that it has prompted several local investors to commit suicide...
...evening that he confessed: he found Lee; they argued; he broke her nose, and bludgeoned her in the back of the head three times with the blunt side of a tire iron. He then pulled her body out of sight. He returned nine hours later to the park to commit an act of necrophilia, and bury her body in a shallow grave under a bush...
...office was located. Nikolayev was arrested, probably because he looked suspicious. He was searched and found to be carrying a gun. Yet he was set free. The only conclusion is that he was released on orders from higher-ups in the same organization who had sent him to commit a terrorist act. A short time afterward, Nikolayev penetrated Smolny and shot Kirov as he was coming up the stairway. Kirov's bodyguard had lagged behind...