Word: hasten
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...inaction might also have dealt a blow to the reelection bid of Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres, who faces a stiff challenge from Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu in national elections May 29. With the PNC vote, the ball is now in Peres' court. The PLO is hoping Israel will hasten the redeployment of troops in Hebron and ease the closure restrictions on Gaza and the West Bank, but that may not happen until after Israeli elections...
...inaction might also have dealt a blow to the reelection bid of Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres, who faces a stiff challenge from Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu in national elections May 29. With the PNC vote, the ball is now in Peres' court. The PLO is hoping Israel will hasten the redeployment of troops in Hebron and ease the closure restrictions on Gaza and the West Bank, but that may not happen until after Israeli elections...
...course, the judges who plumbed the depths of the Constitution to find the "right" to physician-assisted suicide--a right unfindable for 200 years--deny the possibility of such a nightmare scenario. Psychological pressure on the elderly and infirm to take drugs to hasten death? Why, "there should be none," breezily decrees the Second Circuit Court of Appeals...
...Physicians do not fulfill the role of 'killer' by prescribing drugs to hasten death any more than they do by disconnecting life-support systems," writes Judge Miner. This is pernicious nonsense. There is a great difference between, say, not resuscitating a stopped heart--allowing nature to take its course--and actively killing someone. In the first case the person is dead. In the second he only wishes to be dead. And in the case of life sustained by artificial hydration or ventilation, pulling the plug simply prevents an artificial prolongation of the dying process. Prescribing hemlock initiates...
...Sukey, I hasten to say, is nowhere near Dole's age. She has gained Kansas seniority over him by remaining in the state to sell real estate while he lives in Washington and works in the Senate. In my experience, taciturnity is not a characteristic often found in people who sell real estate, not even in down East Maine, which is the place the people spinning theories about the regional origins of Dole's speech presumably have western Kansas mixed up with...