Word: halt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...talks with NBC have already come to a screeching halt because the network wants Roddenberry to do a pilot episode for the series. "Hell, I've got 78 in the can, and I'm not going to do a seventy-ninth," Roddenberry said. "Having made 78 it's not reasonable to ask me to make the investment necessary to do a seventy-ninth...
...regents at the University of Texas threatened to halt publication of the Daily Texan when the paper ran a factually-correct story stating that the regents had misappropriated almost $600,000 for a new chancellor's mansion. The regents had never liked the paper's anti-war editorials anyway. In turn, the Daily Texan sued the regents and the university system. Legal costs and bleak financial projections for an off-campus operation forced a settlement whereby the paper accepted joint editorial control with the faculty...
...stated objective of the Council is the lessening of cutthroat competition among the societies and the provision of a minimum amount of security for each. At full strength, the societies flood the market; still, no one is willing to put a halt to freedom of entry. "We can't limit the market" Epps said. "It would be unfair to those interested in organizing a society. We'd rather not regulate too closely...
...bulldozer presently working on the site will halt corner-cutting strollers by digging up Matthews' two walks and the Yard's double diagonal paths, in favor of a single diagonal path from the Matthews-Mass Hall corner to the middle of Straus Hall. The path then will join a shrub-lined terrace in front of Straus Hall and will extend to the nearby Harvard Square entrance...
...lumps were evidence that the cancer had spread too far. So was X-ray treatment. Mrs. Brown (not her real name) had already had so much exposure to X rays that any more could do serious damage to her healthy tissues. Thus, when even anti-cancer drugs failed to halt the spread of the disease, Mrs. Brown turned in desperation to a new and still experimental treatment...