Word: hastens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...major U.S. hurdle last week when Sen. Jesse Helms, chairman of the Senate Foreign relations committee and a bitter foe of the Castro regime, signed off on the idea in a letter to President Clinton. According to the letter, Helms believes that a CNN bureau in Cuba will hasten Fidel Castro's demise...
...same peculiar ways. "They put their faces very close to the child," she reports. "They use shorter utterances, and they speak in an unusually melodious fashion." The heart rate of infants increases while listening to Parentese, even Parentese delivered in a foreign language. Moreover, Fernald says, Parentese appears to hasten the process of connecting words to the objects they denote. Twelve-month-olds, directed to "look at the ball" in Parentese, direct their eyes to the correct picture more frequently than when the instruction is delivered in normal English...
...apply rational standards to an area of testimony that too often has promoted confusion over clarity. He has heeded the Supreme Court's ruling, in Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, that judges should try to independently assess the scientific merits of expert testimony--and in so doing, he may hasten the resolution of a legal ordeal that has brought anxiety and psychological pain to many women...
DIED. BERNARD LAFFERTY, 51, the reportedly hard-drinking and spendthrift butler who won the trust of tobacco heiress Doris Duke; of yet-to-be-determined causes; in Los Angeles. After prosecutors cleared him of allegations that he had conspired to hasten Duke's death, he resigned his lucrative position as co-executor of her $1.2 billion estate and settled for $4.5 million plus $500,000 a year...
...hasten to say I don't care whether Susan Molinari smoked pot in college. I say this as someone who, being closer in age to Bob Dole than to Susan Molinari, has passed blithely through successive national crazes for marijuana and white wine and Perrier water and microbeers without wavering for a moment in a lifelong loyalty to Scotch whisky...