Word: hastened
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...should continue to sell arms and spare parts to Iran. If we do not, someone else will, probably the U.S.S.R. In addition, the interminable war between Iran and Iraq creates a heavy drain on Iran's economy, which can only hasten the demise of Khomeini's government...
...national movements, leaders hasten to add, couldn't have gotten this far without constant pressure from student groups, whom they credit as the real leaders of the national movement. Indeed, they say, the current spate of activism across the country is a direct outgrowth of student protests in this country during the late 1970s sparked by the bloody riots of Black high school students in Soweto, the Black township outside Johannesburg...
...outcome is predictable. Since both parties have vigorously announced their intentions to protect Social Security payments from cuts, the only alternative is to increase revenues. The tax we all pay on our income will go up, of course; the only question is how fasts. One suggestion has been to hasten the 15 percent increase currently scheduled between 1985 and 1990. Another is to eliminate the exception from Social Security that some groups enjoy. Neither Democrats nor Republicans dare to suggest a more surgical solution--phasing out Social Security and replacing it with a welfare program that targets...
GENTRIFICATION raises a myriad of further questions, including whether City Hall purposely cuts fire protection to areas eyed by property developers to hasten resident turnover--as was charged in New York by some arson-watchers after a similar wave in 1972 But in the meantime, while city officials debate what to do with all the vacant buildings still dotting the map, or how to beef up the arson squad to catch the culprits, they might do well to think a little more thoroughly about the fate of Boston's changing neighborhoods, and how to enable poorer long-term residents...
...that it was "too early to say" whether the U.S. would participate in a peace-keeping force. He added noncommittally: "The U.S. is anxious to do anything it can to bring about a peaceful, long-term solution to the situation." No doubt. But just what Washington could do to hasten the peace was not much clearer than it was the day the crisis began...