Word: hastens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Making matters even more complicated, some drugs increase the potency of enzyme activity. This leads to the bizarre situation in which a heart patient needs more of the anticlotting coumarin drugs if he is also taking barbiturates to allay his anxiety. The "barbies" hasten the breakdown of coumarin, and they have the same effect on some antiepilepsy and antifungal drugs...
...these developments, Washington feels, will impel the rich nations in the so-called Group of Ten to hasten their efforts toward an agreement on a new international currency to supplement dollars, pounds and gold in world trade, as the U.S. has been urging. The problem, of course, is old, and even in the relatively uncomplicated days of 1720, English Satirist Jonathan Swift recognized it in a memorable quatrain...
...experiments demonstrate, Payne reports, that insects and their larvae hasten decomposition not only by feeding on the carcass, but also by spreading bacteria and by the simple mechanical process of burrowing through the flesh. "If it weren't for insects," Entomologist Payne says, "we'd be up to our necks in dead bodies...
Continued intervention by the U.S. -- whether by unilateral invasion, or under the cover of a regional peace-keeping force -- will only hasten the "totalitarian takeovers" which the Administration is pledged to prevent. Our Dominican policy has convinced Latin Americans that the U.S. will back right-wing civilian or military regimes if there is a possibility that a new government would have communist collaboration...
Among those most disturbed by Los Angeles' race riot this summer was Pope Paul VI; the tragedy of Watts moved him to hasten a decision to appoint an American Negro bishop. Last week, on the eve of his historic flight to New York, Pope Paul announced his choice: the Rev. Harold R. Perry, 48, superior of the Southern province of the Society of the Divine Word. Perry's post: auxiliary bishop of New Orleans. Announcing the appointment, New Orleans' Archbishop Philip Hannan-himself raised to that position only three days earlier-said warmly, "We welcome the first...