Word: overcommitting
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...easy it is to overcommit without fully committing. In her first year, Hammond had a Best Buddy to mentor, a spirited 12-year-old girl from Martin Luther King Junior school, balanced shifts at the Harvard Square Homeless Shelter, and kept up intramurally the sports she’d done in high school—volleyball and soccer. “I had no idea what commitment at Harvard was like,” she confesses. “I realized I couldn’t do everything.” Eventually, Best Buddies made a decision for her: that...
Throughout the season’s early going, opposing squads continually exploited the Crimson’s tendency to slightly overcommit on offense, leaving Harvard vulnerable to the counterattack...
...ability to be an honest broker, we throw away an opportunity to be a part of the peace process. Bush concurred - but underscored the military and humanitarian responsibilities of neighboring countries, a point he revisited whenever the topic of American peacekeeping was broached. "We do not want to overcommit our troops...