Word: prolonged
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Polite Reproduction. Many of the physiologic details that Masters and Johnson have revealed may well be of primary interest only to other sexologists. But they are already being put to good medical use, helping to make it possible for supposedly infertile couples to have children, helping to prolong the enjoyment of a healthy and normal sex life for aging couples at least into their 80s. And other universities are already following Washington's lead in setting up programs for the study of what they politely call "reproduction," and treatment of associated problems...
...recommended that employing a permanent pinch hitter for pitchers could prolong a star's career by five years...
...encounter problem," the fact that the effect of any event, from an accident to a riot, may be multiplied beyond control when masses of people are involved. Even the most optimistic experts see no real sign that they can learn enough about the process of aging to dramatically prolong life beyond 70 to 80 years average...
...medicine, says U.C.L.A.'s dean of curriculum, Dr. David Solomon, that "the schools now cannot cover more than a small fraction of the total medical information available." Yet, paradoxically, several leading medical schools have come to the conclusion that the way to meet the problem is not to prolong medical education but to shorten it. Today, for virtually all physicians, education takes a minimum of nine years after high school: four in college, four in medical school, one in an internship. Specialists spend two to seven years more in an ill-paid residency...
...early days of the dispute, Crane consciously sought to destroy the power arrayed against him--the five anti-Curry votes--by demonstrating that it was, in essence, unreal. First came the mayor's election, when he attempted, it seems, to prolong the deadlocked balloting. The longer the delay, the more time there would be to work behind the scenes to shatter the majority. But the mayor's election was resolved in only a week; and with a victory for the anti-Curry forces, the dispute moved out into the open...