Word: prolonged
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...announced that breast-cancer patients who participated in support groups coped better and lived longer than those who didn't. The only problem: the subjects were almost all upper-middle-class white women in California. A larger, more comprehensive study now shows that support groups do not, in fact, prolong life--which may come as a relief to women who felt compelled to join them. But the sessions do help patients control pain and overcome the depression and anxiety that often accompany a breast-cancer diagnosis...
...even proximate cause of such suffering, it is also true that America is the richest nation on earth and Afghanistan one of the poorest. A large measure of generosity--aid, medicine, a program to remove the land mines that keep Afghan fields untilled and maim Afghan children--can prolong the smiles on the faces of those liberated in the past two weeks. There must be no replay of America's thoughtlessness in 1989, when, after the defeated Soviet forces marched across the Oxus River, Washington dropped Afghanistan like a used tissue...
Unlike most mid-project changes in technological service providers, the change to Peoplesoft will not prolong the completion of the HR Project. On the contrary, while the original end date for the project was well into 2003, project leaders now say the project should be ready by April...
Still unknown is whether Gleevec can prolong life. Any time you rely on a single drug to treat cancer there's always the risk that the malignant cells will eventually become resistant...
...relations for deans to offer the protestors extra food, but the residents of Massachusetts and Matthews Halls deserve the University’s protection of their ability to sleep and study—while Harvard should not attempt to drive the protestors out, it has no legitimate reason to prolong their stay...