Word: hastening
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Twenty-five schools have attempted to hasten the new doctor's debut by lopping up to a year off the traditional four-year program. A number of other schools are considering that basic change, which both offsets the rising costs of medical education and allows schools to accommodate more trainees over a period of years. Postgraduate training programs are also changing. New York's Montefiore Hospital has initiated a four-year residency in social medicine that requires participants to involve themselves in neighborhood activities. Resident Steven McCloy, 27, who spends half his time working at a federally funded...
Already U.S. economists have offered alternatives to the broad outlines Nixon has made. Former Budget Director Charles Schultze, now at Brookings Institution, proposed a plan that he believes would provide as much economic stimulation as Nixon's, with more help to the poor. Schultze would hasten personal tax relief, keep the investment tax incentive for corporations but not liberalized depreciation, maintain the auto excise-tax cut, and inaugurate an aid program to the cities...
...Minh, Thieu's only official opponent, is seriously considering withdrawing from the race. That, of course, would reduce the contest to the level of farce, a situation which might in turn force the U.S. to hasten its withdrawal from Viet Nam. Largely for that reason, U.S. Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker flew to Washington last week to discuss ways of keeping Minh in the running...
...that the Bent Pyramid's strange shape (its sides start up at an angle of 52°, but halfway to the top the slope changes abruptly to a more gentle 43½°) was brought about by the premature death of the pharaoh, which forced the workers to hasten completion of the pyramid. Mendelssohn, however, believes that the builders at Dahshûr, hearing of the avalanche at Medûm, prudently reduced the angle of the unfinished portion of their own pyramid to a safe 43½°. In fact, Mendelssohn notes, Egyptian pyramid builders did not return...
...repudiation of the valor and honor of all American fighting men in Viet Nam. If the alliance was odd, the effect might be odder still. It was too soon to be certain, but there was seemingly a new readiness, born of disgust and weariness on both sides, to hasten the end of American participation in Indochina...