Word: hastener
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...rivals sell in the $650-$700 range. Now, though the company denies it, IBM appears to be withdrawing gradually from the ordinary electric typewriter market. It is a move that in the long run may help spell the end of the familiar, jammable typewriter. Another innovation may hasten that change in the future: Xerox Corp. has produced a further revolutionary design in typing equipment. The Xerox 800 is a machine that prints letters from a whirling disc printer called a "daisy wheel." Its advantage is that when attached to a computer it will print while moving either backward or forward...
...from a slaveholding interest. Roche's big job is to subsidize Jimmy Ahmed's revolutionary "commune," in the corporate effort to head off more violent threats of revolution. He is confused about his role, as he lives with the rich whites, works for them, but also works indirectly to hasten their downfall...
...younger feminist researchers are making the same point. Some argue that the Dalton data merely show that many women have absorbed the mythology of the menstrual taboo. Others challenge the interpretation of the data. For instance, Barnard Psychologist Mary Brown Parlee points out that stress can hasten a period; therefore, many menstruating women who do poorly on exams may be victims of stress, not menstruation. Concludes Parlee: "We believe that hormonal change brings certain sensory change, but there is no scientific proof that the hormones make any difference in a woman's behavior...
...Istanbul keeps bumping into a bedraggled Turkish woman who seems to know him. It is, he decides at first, a simple case of mistaken identity-until some frightening events make him suspect that the mistake is his own. On a sunny morning, the brother and sister in Let Us Hasten Quickly to the Gate of Ivory try to visit their parents' graves and succumb to "subdued, also meditative horror" when they realize that they are lost in a limitless cemetery...
This week, Irons's lawyer told him he might get his conviction expunged. The FBI's record of his correspondance with his draft board shows that the office declared him delinquent in order to hasten both his induction and, ultimately, his convictions as a draft-evader. Under a recent Supreme Court decision, such convictions can be retroactively overturned...