Word: hastener
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...Oliver R. Trager, two Cambridge residents who share the apartment with Humes, have begun circulating a petition in Cambridge calling upon the Massachusetts judicial system to conduct a thorough investigation of the Humes case. Currently without counsel, Humes says he is considering surrendering himself to the authorities to hasten the resolution of the charges pending against him, and to publicize his alternative detoxification treatment. He adds that he is still weighing a lawsuit against the National Computer Information Center, but has taken no serious action thus far. In the meantime, Humes keeps a close eye on the daily papers...
...protection program was formally established after passage of the Organized Crime Control Act of 1970 to hasten the breakdown of omerta, the underworld code of silence. Relying on Title V, "Protected Facilities for Housing Government Witnesses," the Justice Department gave anti-Mob informers refuge in "safe houses" until their court testimony, then relocated them, perhaps after they had served prison time themselves...
...welcome and firmly support Teng's re-appointment to his former posts. During the night, however, the poster vanished, all traces of its message scraped off the wall. Some China watchers surmised that the poster had been an attempt by some of Teng's overzealous supporters to hasten his return to power. After all, they argued, posters that had appeared in Peking and Canton last spring announcing Teng's appointment as Premier had proved to be false alarms. The day after the disappearance of the first poster, however, several similar ones were sighted. Foreign residents heard...
...territorial compromise for peace. The question is: What will happen within the next year or two?" On the West Bank, Arabs are wondering the same thing. "We want a solution, either by peace or war," says Mayor Mohammed Mousa Ammer of tiny Dura, near Hebron. "Extremism will only hasten...
...will leave his interrogator totally befuddled and, most important, hide the identity of Firman's boss: Mat Williamson, a Fiji-born financial wizard who can be terminally mean when his interests are threatened. While Firman tries to bamboozle the professor and his two academic assistants, Williamson decides to hasten things by killing everyone involved...