Word: condemn
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...that we in NATO will use only conventional forces in the face of a military threat is to condemn ourselves to defeat in advance. We are currently outmanned compared with the Warsaw Pact countries. Without nuclear arms we would be very seriously outgunned as well. Under these circumstances, no one can risk not resisting the Soviets...
...vessels today are named, indirectly, after saints. For instance, the Santa Barbara carries the name of the patroness of artillery men. Last April at the sub's christening-yes, christening-Secretary Lehman, a Roman Catholic, argued that the Second Vatican Council (1962-65) "not only did not condemn nuclear deterrence weapon systems, but said that deterrence had made a specific contribution to peace...
Nine states have no limit at all. "Theoretically, it is possible to condemn a seven-year-old kid to death in six of these states," says Hunter Hurst, director of the National Center for Juvenile Justice. In most states, though, a serious juvenile offender between the ages of 14 and 16 is eligible to be tried as an adult. The actual treatment of each child is usually left to the discretion of the juvenile judge. Among the criteria that judges use in making their decisions: the seriousness of the charge, the history of the child and the availability of effective...
...returns on every night of every show we support. We know whether it plays to full or quarter capacity and we take that into account. Not as the criterion but a criterion. You may have an experimental production which gets a lousy audience, and it would be unfair to condemn the theatre for that, but if they have a lousy audience throughout the year then one begins to think well, that they're not serving the public...
...HUNDRED AND EIGHTY-EIGHT countries voted recently in the United Nations to condemn the manufacture and promotion of infant formula. One nation--the United States--went on record in favor of this insidious offspring of a "free market." Harvard students this week have an opportunity to help redress this national disgrace; several campus groups are sponsoring petitions in House dining halls that encourage a boycott of all products made by the Nestle corporation--a major infant formula producer--in University food purchases...