Word: hastening
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...Reagan administration's economic sanctions against Poland and the Soviet Union should hasten negotiations between the Polish government and the trade union Solidarity, a leading Polish dissident said last night...
...People's Republic of China took a flier in the "export of revolution" during the '60s and '70s, when the Peking leadership was still enamored of Mao's idea that global disorder would hasten the Communist millennium. The results ranged from disappointing in Africa to disastrous in Indonesia, where a Peking-sponsored coup d'état backfired, leading to the destruction of the local Communist Party and official hostility toward China that lingers to this day. Partly because of that experience, partly because of their disillusionment with Mao's constant reinterpretation of Marxism...
...author put it, were "continually straining to surround themselves with visible evidence of the superior rank they are claiming." Since that happened to include just about the entire U.S. population, the great status game, once focused, provoked a great many fears that it would damage the egalitarian ideal and hasten the evolution of sharp class lines. What none of the fearful saw was that, given the services of mass production and sustained prosperity, universal chasing after prestige would engender such a gorgeous and gaudy muddle of status symbols as to reduce the game to farce-which it has now plainly...
Businessmen hasten to point out that rates still have not come down anywhere near enough to promise a quick end to the recession. Generally, corporate chiefs view a continued slump as the bitter but unavoidable cost of defeating inflation...
...study's authors refuse to accept the U.S. explanation that the bombs were dropped to hasten the war's end and avoid a bloody invasion. Instead, they cling to the questionable theory that the attacks were mainly intended to awe Joseph Stalin and the Soviet Union. In other respects, the study is remarkably free of polemics, though not of ironies. The writers note that many of the victims were Japanese of American birth who had returned to Japan for study and were trapped there by the war. Those of other nationalities who died in the attacks: thousands...