Word: prolongs
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...council meetings, Chopra showed little tolerance for efforts to prolong or delay...
Clark said that Okhotin's mandatory stay in Moscow had been "a huge interruption in his life" that caused "quite a bit of suffering not only for him but his family"--and that she feared a new appeal would prolong that suffering...
...liability insurance. However, Provena's insurance company wouldn't cover the doctors if they continued to see patients outside the hospital, even part time. "Maybe it was silly to take the two-month extension," says Dr. Gregg Cohan, 41, one of Sosenko's partners. "Maybe all we did was prolong the death...
...Russia, Germany, China and France - that history could not be reversed by the power of Security Council veto. And trying once again to block the U.S. at the Security Council would further damage dangerously frayed transatlantic relations, render the UN irrelevant to a world managed by U.S. power, and prolong the humanitarian crisis facing the Iraqi people. Instead, they negotiated for a few weeks to salvage what they could by way of recognition of their commercial interests in Iraq and also of a visible, although mostly decorative, role for the UN in rebuilding the country, and then voted...
...unexpected turns of Gulf War II reflect a perhaps too rigid adherence to ideology at the expense of on-the-ground practicality. But whatever the weaknesses in some of the Administration's early assumptions, they probably won't alter the outcome of the conflict--though they may prolong it. There have been many signal successes on the ground: after all, U.S. forces have moved to within 50 miles of Baghdad in a week, and American forces have defeated the Iraqis in every head-to-head encounter. Despite individual setbacks last week, U.S. fortunes can switch course at any moment...