Word: hasten
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...economy in the Eastern bloc, the Soviet Union's, is the largest and most important to its neighbors. A Soviet economic collapse would devastate Eastern Europe. Assuming that the U.S.S.R. adopts constructive policies toward the Baltic republics and German unification, the summit nations could provide assistance that would also hasten demilitarization. The West could help the Soviets build housing to expedite the return and demobilization of soldiers in Eastern Europe and provide training for non- defense factory managers...
Though no one questions the love of Cruzan's parents and their desire to abide by her wishes, what happens when a family's motives are not so clear? The state of Missouri is paying Cruzan's medical bills; but for other families the desire to hasten an inheritance or avoid crushing medical costs could add an ingredient of self-interest to a decision. The Rev. Harry Cole, a Presbyterian minister who faced the dilemma when his wife fell into a coma, admits the complexity of pressures. "If she were to go on that way, our family faced not only...
Such situations essentially confront families with a Hobson's choice: either they stand by and allow a loved one to waste away, or else they act to hasten death, with all the guilt and recrimination that entails. A state attorney accused 87-year-old Ruth Hoffmeister of wanting to starve her husband to death. Every evening for the past six years, Ruth has spoon-fed her husband Edward, who has Alzheimer's disease. When he began losing weight, their Pompano Beach, Fla., nursing home would have been obliged by state regulations to force-feed him through a tube. Ruth protested...
...believed the owners of the 26 major-league baseball teams would seriously consider putting the 1990 season in danger. Management's Feb. 15 lockout of players from spring-training camps in Florida and Arizona was largely seen as a negotiating ploy, a bit of bluff and bluster that might hasten agreement on a new contract and get the game going on time, before any serious money was lost. The events of last week, though, proved the cynics correct. Talks between the club owners and the Major League Players Association remained deadlocked. In an eleventh-hour gesture, Commissioner Fay Vincent offered...
...happened at the Covenant Birthing Center in Anaheim, Calif., where obstetrician Charles Wesley Turner Jr. used forceps to hasten Myra's debut. Moments after her birth at 15 seconds past midnight on Jan. 1, Turner hustled the 6-lb. 12-oz. baby to the Melodyland Christian Center 150 ft. away, where the nationally televised Praise the Lord program was being filmed. Turner may have hoped to display Myra as one of 1990's first babies. Alas, the lights and cameras had been turned off at midnight. Although Turner says the baby was in no danger from his Hollywood-style obstetrics...