Word: speeds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...outside committee has been meeting with the English Department for the past year to speed up Harvard's notoriously slow tenure process and to help the tradition-bound department examine its strengths and weaknesses...
Getting Wright to walk the plank -- with dignity, if possible, but above all with speed -- seemed to be Congress's best hope of restoring its tattered reputation. When the Speaker and his wife Betty left town for a Memorial Day vacation in an undisclosed location, where Wright was expected to prepare a departure-with-dignity speech, Democrats quickly began speculating openly about his successor, no longer so squeamish about reading the will before the funeral...
...city is under court order to remedy the situation, but New York prison authorities are forbidden by law to resort to a simple release of surplus prisoners to alleviate overcrowding. Instead, the city is scrambling to speed up inmate processing, so that accused criminals awaiting trial can be released on bail, while it is also spilling inmates into the overcrowded state system...
...Lisi sparked us with her speed and her ability to catch those long passes," said junior Char Joslin, who scored the Crimson's fifth goal with 12 minutes remaining in the game...
Such efforts will not keep pace with the inexorable deterioration of the monuments unless the Egyptians can speed up their preservation drive. That is why Mubarak's visit to Luxor, the first since he took office in 1981, was so significant. He not only called for a restoration of the Luxor Temple but also a halt to urban encroachments on all archaeological sites. If Mubarak does throw his power behind preservation, he may encourage the Egyptians to take charge of their own priceless heritage and other nations to lend a hand as well. After all, if the monuments...