Word: prolonging
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...spreading strike, union workers at subways, phone companies and cargo docks have been directed to stay on the job for fear of raising the people's ire; hospital workers also have remained to staff emergency and operating rooms. Home Minister Kim Woo-suk warned that if the unions prolong the protests, the "government has no option but to take firm action." For now, though, the Seoul government will let public opinion determine the strikes' course. It is a war that unions seem to think they...
While science seeks to prolong Americans' lives, the rest of society is making it clear that old people are increasingly undesirable. GAEL GIBNEY New York City...
What makes this combination particularly shameful is that money can buy so much of the pleasure and freedom that ordinarily belong to the young. Poor children living in scary neighborhoods have to grow up fast. But affluent grownups can prolong their own childhoods through years of higher education and sheltered internships. They can spend money on therapies that explore the "inner child." They get to play too, well into the Centrum Silver years, at the kind of outdoor sports any kid would love. All of which is fine, except when these charming traits are combined with indifference toward the condition...
...said he had discovered new meaning in the Bible and learned from the Book of Job. The questions from the students were probing but not hostile. Simpson responded in droning detail, revealing nothing new. He said he had declined to testify because his legal team believed it would only prolong the proceedings...
...even higher goal. If the great majority of Russians are ready to vote against reform in June, as they did last December, the rest of the world will have to live with it. The economy of Russia belongs to its worker-citizens. They have the right to prolong the agony of their emergence from socialism if that is their collective wish...