Word: committed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...going to commit to anything," he said. "I haven't even started...
...fire for protecting the White House; the entire top rank of the Justice Department has been hollowed out by transfers and resignations; White House counsels come and go like munchkins. At the same time, the enemy is smarter and more slippery. New technology makes white-collar crime easier to commit and harder to prosecute. Organized crime is a much more complicated threat than in the days when the FBI battled Al Capone or even Gotti; while agents could penetrate the Italian Mob and recruit informants, it is far more difficult to infiltrate the new Vietnamese, Russian or Pakistani rings, with...
...power to persuade 38 followers to abandon their lives and families and commit suicide in the hope of leaving the earth aboard a spaceship, then maybe it is time for all of us to find our own comet and get as far away from this planet as possible. ALEX HOEFINGER Amherst, Massachusetts...
...sexual repression and mental confusion arising from the tag-team influence of socialist-atheist Dad and Bible-thumping Mom lead Alan to worship the mystical horse-deity Equus (Latin for "horse"). It is the intersection of reality with Alan's fantasies that leads the emotionally undeveloped boy to commit such a ghastly deed. As the play progresses, however, it becomes less about Alan and more a commentary on the restrictive conventions of normality that "society" imposes. Dr. Dysart questions his own mission in light of Alan's passions. Through a series of well-written but somewhat overly weighty monologues...
Harvard also put an end to its defensive woes as it didn't commit any errors...