Word: hasten
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...asking Congress to increase the progressiveness of the income tax system for the express purpose of aiding the poor. Because lower-income people tend to spend a larger proportion of their income than higher earners do, the tax changes should encourage consumer spending. Thus the surcharge should not hasten or deepen a recession...
...South's grievance against the North--is real, despite its usefulness to the people who throw rocks at schoolbuses. But the redress of that grievance will be likelier when education is better and when black and white people unite to obtain it. The integration of Boston's schools should hasten that...
...this affair was but one move toward making the world safe not for peace but for the protection of American corporations' interests abroad. According to The New York Times account, Kissinger headed the State Department faction which, not content with peaceful subversion of Chile's government, wanted to hasten a military coup. The removal from office of Kissinger would be the first shift toward a wholesale shift in foreign policy away from support of repressive governments and toward the nurturing of close ties with popular leaders such as Salvador Allende in Chile...
...stiffly hierarchical coils of German society and then traumatized by the war, mechanized beyond redemption. It was the last expiring twitch of German romanticism, replete with hopes for primitivism, rural simplicity, the brotherhood of man and the death of authority, all of which, the expressionists naively thought, they could hasten to fulfillment by painting pictures. (It is only fair to recall that Hitler, who banned expressionism as "degenerate art" in 1933, shared this delusion about its political potency.) Emotional vulnerability became the expressionist weapon on behalf of the masses-"those individual people," as Martin Buber wrote, "naked under their clothes...
...Watergate, the case before the U.S. Supreme Court was unique in terms of law, politics and history. The President faced the lawful challenge of a Special Prosecutor he himself had appointed only seven months before. The prosecutor pleaded for a ruling to compel the release of evidence that might hasten Richard Nixon's removal from office by impeachment. The President, through his advocate, sought protection from such an order, plus the court's imprimatur on his very special view of presidential prerogatives...