Word: halt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mayor's duties to be increasingly anachronistic-inevitably involved in such a flood of ceremonial and political functions that the actual management of the city has been left to a timid bureaucracy. It has become a New Yorker's cliche that the mayor is powerless to halt the city's decline. In fact, recent charter revisions have given the mayor of New York extraordinary new executive powers, which the outgoing administration did not utilize to best advantage...
Ominous Gesture. To Smith this seemed a far cry from the deal he had discussed with Wilson in Salisbury. Abruptly, he slapped government controls on all imports, supposedly to halt a buying panic that was rapidly depleting Rhodesia's hard-currency reserves, but perhaps to suggest that big events-such as a unilateral declaration of independence-lay ahead. Then, after a furious 24 hours in which he presided over a caucus of his Rhodesian Front Party and held three long Cabinet meetings, came an even more ominous gesture: the declaration of a nationwide state of emergency...
...busing. Lee has always been fairly outspoken in his opposition to the principle of racial balancing, but he has his own scheme for satisfying the state requirements. Dubbed "scatteration," the plan calls for shipping Negro children to suburban schools, where Boston would pay their tuition. Theoretically this would halt the exodus of white Boston residents to the lily-white suburbs...
...halt the Baby Tiger's strong running attack. Harvard's defense will have to pierce a Princeton offensive line averaging 219 pounds. Three behemoth tackles. Fulvio Gentili, Bob Panoff, and injury-plagued 6-5, 260 pound Steve Kuziel anchor the Harvard defensive line. The secondary, led by Gatto and quarterbacks Ken O'Connell and Will Stargel, should stymie Princeton's undistinguished passing attack...
...recaptured the initiative" in Viet Nam and, with its ever-increasing strength, is likely to keep it. If that happens, he added, the war may very well end without a single session of formal truce talks but with the "eventual dissolution" of the Viet Cong apparatus and an undeclared halt to guerrilla activities. Meanwhile the cause of peace can realistically be advanced only on the battlefield...