Word: furtherance
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Her biopic, The Notorious Bettie Page, begins and ends in religious fervor. The film climaxes with its heroine being born again as a proselytizing Christian. It's an old-fashioned Hollywood resolution that couldn't be further from the sordid truth.
Instead of coming together to craft a plan to stave off bankruptcy, the parties in both chambers and on each end of Pennsylvania Avenue spent the day moving further apart. Even as Senate Dems and the White House met to fashion a workable compromise, Senate Republicans made clear that they...
Dems also agreed to scale back the sweeping powers once envisioned for the so-called car czar created by the bill to help oversee the companies' restructurings. But while some conservative House Republicans decried the very idea of such a bureaucratic watchdog, certain Senate Republicans want to further empower the...
On Dec. 9, the Hong Kong government reported yet another outbreak of the virus at one of the city's largest poultry farms after 60 chickens were found dead. Putting the city on "serious alert" for further outbreaks, Hong Kong Secretary for Food and Health York Chow Yat-ngok announced...
That's a dire prediction given that further outbreaks are expected throughout Asia in the coming months, according to Peter Cordingley, a spokesman for the World Health Organization. Cordingley says he's not surprised that the virus, which spreads most readily via wild birds migrating during the winter months, has...