Word: prolonged
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Legalizing same-sex marriage would probably help prolong gay relationships, if only because of the financial and legal benefits married couples enjoy. Federal benefits are unavailable to lesbian and gay couples even in Massachusetts, the only state that allows those couples to obtain marriage licenses. Kurdek says in a 1998 Journal of Marriage and the Family paper that even though gay and lesbian relationships end more often than straight marriages, they don't degrade any faster. In other words, it takes squabbling gay and straight couples the same amount of time to enter what is known as "the cascade toward...
...boycott card until the very last minute, in a game of political poker that will end on December 15, the deadline for candidates to enter the race. Still, it's Musharraf who holds the trump card. The emergency, he says, will be lifted on December 16, but he could prolong it if the parties do decide to boycott the election. He appears to be betting that power will be more important than principle to both Sharif and Bhutto...
...child of the first MTV audience. Those mantles may not be deserved, but they’ve certainly stuck. Since the late 1980s, the band, fronted by Simon LeBon, has had trouble finding renewed success. “Red Carpet Massacre,” their latest, will, sadly, only prolong their quest. It would be pointless to dismantle the music of Nick Rhodes and John Taylor as frivolous, synth-heavy fluff, because depth and musicianship were never what Duran Duran were about. Instead, their songs were meant as escapism. Just look at the imagery they chose to use in their...
...fourth quarter: I said it last week and I'll say it again: Don't you hate when teams call timeouts to prolong a game that's obviously over? It's cold, Penn, and we all want to go home...
...believes that the Pope's doctors dutifully explained the situation to him, and thus she surmises that it was the pontiff himself who likely refused the feeding tube after he'd been twice rushed to the hospital in February and March. Catholics are enjoined to pursue all means to prolong life. (See pictures by John Paul's late photographer...