Word: prolonger
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...first and do something about your socks. You've got two different colors on. And I don't know if that checked shirt goes with those plaid trousers." Roth and his brother agonize about whether or not to let the doctors remove the tumor, an operation that may prolong their father's life but could also remove whatever it is that made Herman Roth Herman Roth. "Will I be a zombie?" he asks...
...that is if everything goes well, which is no sure thing. The economists in the TIME forum warned that the U.S. faces a minefield of unprecedented risks that could worsen the recession and prolong it through next year and beyond. Chief among them is the threat of a drawn-out war in the Persian Gulf. That could push the price of oil, which closed at $25.92 per bbl. last week, well past the $41.40-per-bbl. peak that it hit in October. Another serious threat is the possibility of a crisis in the U.S. banking system, which is awash...
...only so long as the vague, hypothetical benefits of holding off Asian communism outweighed the immmediate, palpable domestic pain. They knew that when the screaming grew too loud and too many sons had been killed, the game would be over. That is why...our reluctance to [be drafted] helped prolong...
...this does not sound too Calvinistic, will come to bear in the downturn, making it deeper than it otherwise would be. And the medium of that will be a shrinkage in the availability of credit. Just as the advent of ever longer maturities in car loans, for example, helped prolong and deepen the expansion, so will shrinkage in the terms of credit -- whether they be in car loans or mortgages or corporate lending -- deepen the recession. I am not at all sure this is going to be a Grapes of Wrath. At least, I hope not. But I think...
Another speaker, George E. Vaillant '55, Professor of Psychiatry at Dartmouth Medical School, spoke about how self-care can prolong life. Vaillant is the director of the "Grant" Study of Adult Development, which has kept tabs on a group of male Harvard graduates of the same...