Word: hasten
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...order to buy time until the South Vietnamese could defend their own soil. To the Administration, however, the Communist attack was an opportunity as well as an uncertain challenge. The White House is convinced, as one official put it last week, that "if the Vietnamese fight well, this will hasten the end of the war considerably." In short, Washington felt-perhaps too optimistically-the fighting could mean an end to the stalemate, both on the battleground and at the Paris talks...
...hoped, he said, to force Hanoi to take it more seriously. He also sought to prove to critics that the U.S. had "gone the extra mile" in seeking an agreement and that the failure could be blamed solely on Communist intransigence. Whether Nixon's televised revelations actually would hasten the end of the war by bringing world opinion to bear against the Communists remained in grave doubt. The two sides seemed almost as far apart as ever, and the public spotlight may only have illuminated their differences and made accommodation more difficult...
Lest you confuse the skimpiness of the evidence in my article (for heritability of I.Q.) with skimpiness of evidence on the subject in general. I hasten to refer you to the following sampling...
Twenty-five schools have attempted to hasten the new doctor's debut by lopping up to a year off the traditional four-year program. A number of other schools are considering that basic change, which both offsets the rising costs of medical education and allows schools to accommodate more trainees over a period of years. Postgraduate training programs are also changing. New York's Montefiore Hospital has initiated a four-year residency in social medicine that requires participants to involve themselves in neighborhood activities. Resident Steven McCloy, 27, who spends half his time working at a federally funded...
Already U.S. economists have offered alternatives to the broad outlines Nixon has made. Former Budget Director Charles Schultze, now at Brookings Institution, proposed a plan that he believes would provide as much economic stimulation as Nixon's, with more help to the poor. Schultze would hasten personal tax relief, keep the investment tax incentive for corporations but not liberalized depreciation, maintain the auto excise-tax cut, and inaugurate an aid program to the cities...