Word: prolonged
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...current situation and an opportunity to prevent a problem from spreading or becoming more prominent. He has not portrayed the data collection effort as the start of a crusade against institutionalized racism ingrained into Massachusetts police departments and has so far said he will resist any efforts to prolong such collection...
Years later, my mother's words played a part in my choice of profession. Practicing medicine allowed me to improve and even prolong the lives of others. And I dedicated myself to surgery, the most compelling of all specialties, because I would put to use the manual dexterity I developed as a child...
Catholics, listen up! If you vote for Kerry, you'll be damned, but that's in the future. If you vote for Bush, you'll prolong the hell we're already in. Easy choice. Vote for Kerry, and go to confession after the election. NORA JEAN SMITH San Diego...
...boast two top-100 players in co-captain David Lingman and junior Jonathan Chu, and they look to avenge last year’s second-round 4-0 loss to Alabama following a 4-3 Harvard victory over Virginia Commonwealth. Moreover, the team has five seniors who look to prolong their Harvard careers at least a few more weeks...
...person of an al-Qaeda operative arrested in northern Iraq early this year, it pleaded for jihadists around the world to join in an effort to start a civil war in Iraq. With the handover of sovereignty to Iraqis approaching, the writer argued, "the only way to prolong the duration of the fight" was to foment conflict between the country's Sunni and Shi'ite populations and "bring the Shi'a into the battle." Though the letter was undated and unsigned, U.S. intelligence officials detected in its aims and bravado--the author claimed to have directed 25 suicide bombings...