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Word: hastens (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jones: How many are dead? [One of the airstrip party reports that others were killed.] Aw, God, Almighty God. It's too late. They're all laying out there dead. Please, can we hasten our medication...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Hurry, My Children, Hurry | 3/26/1979 | See Source »

...recent past, it also appears powerless to influence the country's immediate future. The basic goal of what Administration officials concede is no more than a patchwork policy is to support Bakhtiar's efforts to restore order. The U.S. backing for the Prime Minister, these officials hasten to add, is based not on preference but simply on the fact that he is, for the moment, the legal head of government. Says a State Department specialist: "We are not trying to push Bakhtiar on the people of Iran. If they decide to select a new leader of their government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAN: Waiting for the Ayatullah | 2/5/1979 | See Source »

...usually be reached only by automobile-of gasoline. They gobble up valuable farm land, pollute the environment, overtax local services, create great traffic snarls, and all too often are vast asphalt eyesores. Worse still, by encouraging the exodus of both shopkeepers and shoppers to the suburbs, they only hasten the decay of downtown areas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: A Pall Over the Suburban Mall | 11/13/1978 | See Source »

...still loves to act like a kid, completing the image with her new Betty Boop hairdoo. Despite knee socks, hot pants and t-shirts, there's a maturity in her magnificent voice, a control that has been carefully developed during her days with Peter Asher. Hasten Down the Wind hinted at that sound, and Simple Dreams polished it even further. Ronstadt's newest release, Living in the U.S.A., showcases her versatnity and maintains the melodic mixture that has proven so successful in the past. The album is not her strongest to date, but it does reflect the enormous talent Linda...

Author: By Mark D. Director, | Title: Little Linda Grows Up | 10/10/1978 | See Source »

...furor raises complex, emotionally charged questions. Advocates of a U.S. economic pullout claim it could hasten the end of apartheid. But would it really? Most U.S. companies argue that they are helping South Africa's blacks by staying there and working for change. But are they doing enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: America's South African Dilemma | 9/18/1978 | See Source »

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