Word: hasten
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Regan had long ignored allies' complaints about the U.S. budget deficit and concerns at home about an overvalued U.S. dollar that had led to a dismal American trade deficit. Baker reversed that stance with the September 1985 Plaza accord, a five-nation cooperative attempt to hasten the dollar's decline. Baker tried to use the dollar's continuing fall as a diplomatic tool. His aim: to chivy West Germany and Japan into expanding their domestic economies, while counting on the U.S. currency's drop in value to start reversing the ugly trade figures...
These are not novel disclosures. To some, these developments are encouraging; after all, a disarming first strike capability, according to escalation dominance theorists, will translate into concrete political advantages. There is little need for concern, these neo-hawks hasten to add, because the U.S. will not actually exercise this capacity...
...effort to hasten progress, the council agreed to circumvent standard procedure and send the letter without waiting for approval of the meeting's minutes next week...
...doctor, and the patient is dying from AIDS. A new drug called azidothymidine (AZT) might temporarily suppress the virus and prolong his life. But you hesitate: AZT may do nothing for his manifestation of the disease. It could even hasten death. And prescribing the drug could bring malpractice suits, since AZT has so far worked only on AIDS sufferers with symptoms different from this patient...
Almost all the White House problems lately are in the foreign policy field, where Regan has little expertise and claims the least influence. Although he helped hasten McFarlane's departure by trying to make the National Security Adviser more accountable to him, Regan stresses that the post is independent of the chief of staff. "I don't have foreign policy under me," Regan protests. Such claims hardly ring true to most in Washington. Says one first-term Reagan staff alumnus: "It's clear that Regan's calling the shots. He's the de facto National Security Adviser, the de facto...