Word: hastened
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...ferocious-looking cover photo for our report on shark behavior elicited some rather, well, biting commentary from a few of you. "That TIME would demonize the majestic white shark to sell magazines shows true desperation," snapped a New Yorker. "You will only hasten its demise." A Seattle reader objected to "tabloid-news antics" and questioned why TIME "devoted a cover to shark attacks since, according to the article, dogs bite many thousands more people than sharks do." A tad more appreciative was a reader from Michigan who said he was "glad to see my lawyer made your cover...
...history begins with the death of Princess Di would fall for the argument you can provoke the authorities into system-changing overreaction. It tends to work the other way around. It's a revolutionary's equivalent of the fallacy that otherwise virtuous people, by committing every conceivable abomination, can hasten the advent of the messiah. Any of these revolutionary theoreticians ever hear of the Black Panthers? Of what happened to them...
...parliaments to protest the cabinet's override of the Constitutional Court's decision. The Yugoslav Prime Minister Zoran Zizic and his Montenegrin Socialist People's Party also bolted, stripping the coalition of both its federal governing partner and its majority in the federal parliament. The likely political gridlock could hasten Montenegro's split from Yugoslavia and will hamper efforts to rebuild a devastated economy. A recent World Bank report found that owing to chronic mismanagement, rampant corruption and the burdens of constantly financing wars, Yugoslavia's per capita gdp is just half the size it was in 1989, and unemployment...
...arrogantly believe that we can never fall from our superpower position, that will only hasten the inevitable. And when America turns to other nations for help, they will be unlikely to show much sympathy if they only remember a selfish, self-aggrandizing nation...
...pregnancies, thus allowing communities to back specific programs that fit their resources and values. Programs that involve youths in tutoring and volunteer activities and don't mention sex at all have worked. So has teaching comprehensive sex education. Contrary to the worries of many parents, sex ed does not hasten the onset of sexual activity, the study says...