Word: tasks
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...group was a task force appointed by the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence. The commission itself was established by Lyndon Johnson a year ago, shortly after the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy. The task force, which is sued its meticulously researched 350,000-word report on the anniversary of Kennedy's death, examined the historical precedents and foreign parallels of contemporary violence in America...
...Americans have always been a violent people," the scholars found. Interest groups have typically used force both for protection and to gain their ends, but few Americans recall their heritage of violence. The civics-book image of America as a Promised Land, the task force lamented, has obscured in most citizens' minds the fact that their country's history is littered with illegal acts of violence...
...first and obvious answer," they suggested, "is that some fundamental grievances in the United States have not only gone unresolved, but have intensified in recent years." If violence is to be controlled, the task force warns, it will be only through a judicious combination of strengthened police power and alleviation of the grievances...
...task that the Kremlin had undertaken in convening the summit was formidable. There was considerable suspicion that the conference, expected to last two or three weeks, would turn out to be a debacle for the Soviets. Never has the Communist movement been in greater disarray. Once the undisputed fountainhead of Communism, Moscow has seen many parties grow distant and independent and others turn violently against Soviet primacy. It is not too much to say that the Russians can now command unquestioning obedience only in those countries where their soldiers can enforce...
...ultimate strength of Henry V has to rest with the man who plays the king. It is not an enviable task, for the role will always be haunted with the ghost of Olivier and the undying memory of that shivering heraldic cry, "God for Harry! England and Saint George!" Len Cariou lacks that hortatory magic of voice and presence. He is manly, straightforward and appealing, someone whom troops would always follow into the next town but scarcely into that cauldron of death and glory which is what Shakespeare meant by immortalizing Agincourt on St. Crispin...