Word: vow
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After that loss to Princeton in which he’d scored 22, Merchant, who never once beat the Tigers, still refused to concede anything. He made the next generation of Crimson men’s basketball vow to end the team’s futility streak against the Orange Menace...
...them deaf and mute, may have been sexually abused. The government has promised to let Pestana take a broom to Casa Pia. Doing so would help Prime Minister José Manuel Dur?o Barroso, whose Social Democratic Party ousted the Socialists in March last year, make good on his vow to bring life and honor back into Portugal's public institutions. The Casa Pia scandal should give him plenty of ideas about where to begin...
...been affected, but our future will continue brightly." To show just how serious Shanghai is about keeping the virus at bay, the municipal government earlier this month mandated a limited quarantine on anyone coming from a SARS-infected area?a policy that runs counter to Premier Wen Jiabao's vow last month not to implement any extreme quarantine measures. But Shanghai's quarantine policy has not been rigorously enforced, as dozens of visitors from Beijing and Hong Kong continue to disperse into the city without a trace. Still, locals seem to think that Shanghai can beat the bug. "Shanghai...
...brokered last December by the Geneva-based Henry Dunant Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, GAM agreed to abandon its 26-year armed struggle and accept autonomy as a starting point for negotiations. But GAM's leaders - possibly emboldened by East Timor's successful breakaway from Jakarta in 1999 - continue to vow that Aceh will one day be a sovereign entity. What's more, they have yet to begin disarming...
...Screaming children will give you a headache and make you vow never to procreate...