Word: hastens
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...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...
...inaction might also have dealt a blow to the reelection bid of Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres, who faces a stiff challenge from Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu in national elections May 29. With the PNC vote, the ball is now in Peres' court. The PLO is hoping Israel will hasten the redeployment of troops in Hebron and ease the closure restrictions on Gaza and the West Bank, but that may not happen until after Israeli elections...
...inaction might also have dealt a blow to the reelection bid of Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres, who faces a stiff challenge from Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu in national elections May 29. With the PNC vote, the ball is now in Peres' court. The PLO is hoping Israel will hasten the redeployment of troops in Hebron and ease the closure restrictions on Gaza and the West Bank, but that may not happen until after Israeli elections...