Word: halt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President Johnson announces that he will not seek reelection, orders partial bombing halt in Viet...
...polluting the environment. "We are debauching the country," he says. Meeting such new goals will plainly require some extraordinary changes of attitudes among both businessmen and politicians. At the extreme, business may have to renounce its allegiance to all-out economic growth in order to halt the chemical and bacterial poisoning of air, land and waters. During the 1970s, the nation may also face a chronic shortage of capital to finance its seemingly boundless appetite for roads, airports, schools and many other projects. Continued inflation would disrupt the delicate mechanism through which most of the capital must be generated. Recession...
...translation. No modernization of spelling or punctuation ! No abridgement ! Maintain original typography ! Halt the falsification of texts...
Greenberg denied that the suit is designed to halt criticism of the war. He said he would sue regardless of the content of the political actions. "I just think it's a grave mistake for an educational institution to get involved in political activities." he said...
...cases that involve grave crimes. In 1954, an Army review board affirmed the murder conviction of an enlisted man who had shot a Korean to death while guarding an airfield. The guard claimed that he had been ordered to fire on anyone who did not heed his order to halt, and his lawyer said that this made him, in effect, an automaton without criminal intent. The review board rejected the argument...