Word: hastener
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...when many singers stretch their repertories by taking on roles unsuited to their voices and thus hasten the end of their careers, the Italian-born Freni has remained close to her lyric roots. She comes from the world of the poor, consumptive Mimi in Puccini's La Bohème and the sparkling, scheming Susanna in Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro. Despite taking on some distinctly heavier parts, mostly Verdi heroines, in recent years-Aida, Desdemona in Otello and Elisabeth in Don Carlos-she is still rightly regarded as the finest Mimi and Susanna around. "The dramatic...
...just such a set of guidelines that would probably mollify Rep. Gore, Vice-Chancellor Park and others, Lamont-Havers concedes, adding that Mass General has been hard at work on regulations for industrial affiliations since 1975. In his annual report, Bok said he would urge the entire faculty to hasten its efforts along a similar vein...
...fall discussion on a suggestion involving Faculty conflict of interest. The council says it is postponing discussion on the proposal, which would have required Faculty members with potentially serious conflicts of interest to report them to the University, because it is vaguely written. Although the council certainly should not hasten to adopt a policy it will regret, the issues raised in recent months cry out for an update of Harvard's 15-year-old position...
...point out. As executive director of the nation's best known right-wing political action committee, he can no longer afford to be associated with Weicker--now considered one of the few moderate-to-liberal Republicans in the Senate. In fact, Dolan is doing everything he can to hasten Weicker's demise on Capitol Hill...
...read: destructive) form of human activity; and our aggressive drive to extract all possible unrenewable resources to feed the mechanical (read: growth-oriented) society. Until society comes to grip with the energy crisis and moves into a new phase ("The solar age") we will not progress, but will instead hasten graver crises and our descent into hell, which Rifkin calls "high-entropy...