Word: proceed
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...essential optimism more infectiously than Ronald Reagan. But his power of positive thinking, while it lifts national morale, has not served to cure every problem. Faith in supply-side growth, for example, has done nothing to slow the runaway federal deficit. By insisting that he can at once proceed with SDI while persuading the Soviets to make deep reductions in strategic weapons, Reagan may be engaging in even more wishful thinking...
...should a democratic nation proceed when it captures a high-value prisoner like al-Qahtani, when unlocking a mind might save lives? Experts acknowledge that brute torture generally doesn't work because a person will say anything to stop the pain. So what, exactly, is effective? And when do the ends justify the means...
...Completing graduate housing has been a priority for the University, so the motivation has been to proceed with building as quickly as possible,” she says...
...There are people who I think believe that the only way to proceed is to box off the FAS as much as possible from intervention from above of the sorts that occurred,” says Jan Ziolkowski, acting chair of the folklore and mythology department, who has been the driving force behind the chair meetings. “Since we don’t have any say in the matter [of whether a president stays or goes] beyond what the vote itself expressed, what we have to do is ensure that operations that are most important...
This lawsuit, filed by Cantabrigian Kevin Hill in February, had put a halt on the construction plans until now, but Mary H. Power, Harvard’s senior director of community relations, said that the University intends to proceed now that the suit has been dismissed...