Word: prolonger
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...ultimate passage of the bill was never in doubt, but Sen. Howard M. Metzenbaum (D-Ohio) was threatening to prolong debate, which began Monday, into the weekend unless senators agreed to tougher capital requirements...
Dole acknowledged that the debate has extended beyond the usual time frame for most nominees but said "this is unprecedented. We don't want to prolong the debate--we want...
...recent memory. Though the President cannot get anything done without the cooperation of at least some members of the Democratic congressional majorities, the task of wooing them will now be harder. Within the Administration, the absence of a Secretary of Defense able to assert the Pentagon's view will prolong the review of foreign and national-security problems that Bush insists on completing before he makes major international- policy moves...
...hearing of the legislative Committee on Education last week on Dukakis' budget proposal, officials called the governor's plan a "subsistence" budget that would prolong but stabilize the fiscal problems of the last two years...
...course of his lengthy academic career, Leyser has spent time in the United States as a visiting professor at the University of California at Berkeley. His stint at Harvard this spring was arranged before his retirement last year from Oxford, so the scholar decided to prolong his stay in academia for at least another semester...