Word: prolongs
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...American liberalism. By asserting that George Jackson's $70 robbery "scarcely Warranted an eleven-year sentence" and that court "reform has proved to be a regression in many cases," you seem to be clearly aware of the inequities facing black political transgressors. Unfortunately, you are willing to prolong these inequities rather than risk a rapid overhaul of their source -America's outdated political and economic systems...
...surgical incisions into her withered veins so that almost continual blood transfusions could be forced in. "Please don't torture me any more," she begged her doctor, Rolando Lopez. Many doctors routinely, if quietly, withhold life-preserving treatment when they determine that its only effect will be to prolong the agony of dying. But Dr. Lopez was concerned that he might be charged with aiding and abetting a suicide on the one hand, or treating a patient against her will on the other. He took his problem to court...
...suggests, many people who are presumably fighting poverty actually profit from it. Besides, the poor "support medical innovation" as patients in teaching and research hospitals, and they constitute "a labor pool that is willing-or, rather, unable to be unwilling-to perform dirty work at low cost." Poor people "prolong the economic usefulness" of day-old bread, secondhand clothes and cars and deteriorated buildings; they also provide income for incompetent doctors, lawyers and teachers who might otherwise be an economic drain on society...
...Nixon's statement carefully avoids scolding the Soviet Union for supplying arms to Communist troops in Viet Nam. Yet the difficulty of reaching Soviet leaders was demonstrated anew on the same day that Nixon's report was released. The Soviet government attacked Vietnamization as an effort to prolong the war and announced that it would "continue giving all necessary aid" to Hanoi...
...legal inevitability of equal admissions. By retaining control over admissions policy and financial aids, the reconstituted Radcliffe College-a "college" without its own administration, faculty or funds-will simply serve as a delivery service, yearly sending over to Harvard an annual quota of women that promises to prolong the current imbalance of four men to one woman...