Word: halt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...makes the reception better-although for what purpose is not so clear. True, there are no more cigarette commercials, and some programs called Sesame Street and The Electric Company are brightening the day for children. But for adults, it is, as always, lame adventure series and innocuous sitcoms, the halt leading the bland. There are fewer talk shows and more movies made expressly for TV-all of them, it seems, starring James Farentino and George Peppard...
...from the fourth quarter of 1971 to the same period last year. Burns appears willing to moderate that growth rate only slightly this year. In December, the money supply soared by 13.3%, but Burns announced last week that it increased "by about zero" in January, the first sharp halt since November 1971. The standstill was probably not intentional, since it is difficult for the Federal Reserve to control the money supply precisely...
Monetary experts from the big Western nations had been searching for ways to halt the crisis. They were talking in terms of seeing the West German mark and the Japanese yen revalued upward...
...Cambodia, Premier Lon Nol declared a unilateral halt to offensive operations against the Communists. Exiled Prince Norodom Sihanouk, during a visit to Hanoi, pledged that the forces he nominally heads would not start major actions either. The North Vietnamese have only tenuous control of the native Khmer Rouge, and would have a hard time making an agreement stick. But a defacto cease-fire would give the Cambodians a chance to work out their own arrangement...
...royalty, Princess Anne, 22, did not hesitate when a fellow huntsman tumbled off his horse. "Leave the horse to me!" she shouted, then overtook the runaway on her own bay gelding, swung low in the saddle and grabbed the horse's reins to bring it to a halt. Later in the Cheshire Hunt, another rider fell: "The princess jumped over me and went straight after the horse," the fallen rider recalled. "She did very well to catch him. Afterward she said to me, 'You were very lucky. I nearly landed...