Word: prolonging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...agents of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. Alvarez-Machain still awaits trial in Los Angeles on federal charges of conspiring to torture and kill dea agent Enrique Camarena, kidnapped and murdered in Guadalajara in 1985. The doctor allegedly injected Camarena with lidocaine, which kept his heart going to prolong his torture and interrogation by Mexican officials and drug kingpins...
...want to do. To ease the frightening burden on their citizens, some politicians and economists advocate government action that will keep afloat giant state enterprises, such as steel and textile mills, which have suffered especially deep drops in production and endured the heaviest layoffs. But renewed subsidies would only prolong the economic agony by keeping inefficient dinosaurs alive...
Sachs is fully aware that his strong medicine is driving people into the & streets. Last week he called the Russian situation "politically very risky." But he says the slower approach that Yeltsin's critics advocate will only prolong the agony without providing the benefits of a market economy. Sachs notes that in cases like Bolivia and Chile, where shock policies have worked, it took about five years "to make the changes so widespread and visible that they became self-sustaining." But will the Russian people -- and their politicians -- have that much patience...
...knife edge, as I always thought it would be. Because to an extent I've been a hostage to the hostage situation. Whenever people have tried to make my case very public, to debate it very noisily, it has been suggested that to do so would be to prolong the hostages' plight. Now, since the hostages are out, I am able to speak more freely...
...with Anderson's sister Peggy Say and with the State Department and other groups in the U.S. and Britain. It was not always easy to know what was best. "Our dilemma was that if we made a big fuss about Terry, the argument could be made that it would prolong his ordeal by increasing his value in the eyes of his captors," David recalls. "On the other hand, if we didn't make a fuss, that would contribute to poor morale on the part of Terry and the other hostages...