Word: hastener
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While neither of the Sunday quakes hit along the San Andreas Fault, where experts believe the Big One will eventually strike, both were on faults that intersect it. That could put more pressure on the San Andreas and hasten the arrival of a mega-quake -- a devastating prospect, since the San Andreas runs through the populous Los Angeles basin...
...last week, in a far-reaching decision likely to hasten the execution of many death row inmates, the high court narrowed the ability of state prisoners to challenge the constitutionality of their convictions or sentences. The Justices ruled that federal courts are no longer obligated to grant a hearing on these appeals, even if the inmate can show that his lawyer failed to present important facts. This ruling seriously weakens an important aspect of habeas corpus (Latin for "you should have the body") law, long a prime target of Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist. Such a change in habeas corpus...
...Reagan and the Pope spent only a few minutes reviewing events in the Middle East. Instead they remained focused on a subject much closer to their heart: Poland and the Soviet dominance of Eastern Europe. In that meeting, Reagan and the Pope agreed to undertake a clandestine campaign to hasten the dissolution of the communist empire. Declares Richard Allen, Reagan's first National Security Adviser: "This was one of the great secret alliances of all time...
...that line might produce some pleasant surprises for those journalists who fear that their fellow citizens are too prudish for the country's good. At the least, it would force the citizenry to decide how much they really care about a candidate's sexual history, and might thereby hasten the day when journalists could, with a clean conscience, stop reporting such matters...
This same form works just as well in Maus II: And Here My Troubles Began. The book begins when Artie and his wife Francoise hasten to Vladek's rented summer cottage in the Catskills upon hearing that he has suffered a heart attack. But he hasn't--his second wife, Mala, has left him and Vladek wants to ensure that his son will visit...