Word: halt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...asking for a halt on construction of the line from Harvard Square to the Alewife Parkway, Cambridge's citizens may be cornering themselves. Even the staunchest opponents of the MBTA's current plans for extending the Red Line say they want the subway extended to Rte. 128, as originally planned...
...most serious challenge to the hunt came from an environmental organization called Greenpeace, led by David McTaggart, 47. A veteran of the annual seal-hunting protests in his native Canada, McTaggart six years ago sailed a wooden ketch into the South Pacific in a futile attempt to halt a French atomic bomb test. This time he vowed to keep a cordon of conservationists between the Norwegians and their prey. Said McTaggart: "There is no way they can stop us, short of sending in the police...
...most other short-term rates. Then last week the board increased the discount rate, the interest charged by the board for loans to member banks, from 8% to 8½%, the highest level ever. A key motive for the Federal Reserve's money moves has been to halt a sharp and inflationary increase in the money supply. Also, the Fed is trying to forestall further dumping of the dollar on foreign markets; lower inflation and higher U.S. interest rates should make greenbacks more attractive to hold...
...Angeles will try to halt the Yankee express with veteran Don Suton in Tuesday night's sixth game. New York will use caatfish Hunter, saving ace Ron Guidry for a poossible seventh game--hoping one isn't needed. Sutton was the third-game loser and Hunter was charged with the loss in Game...
International efforts to halt the fighting were similarly troubled. In the same curt tones with which he had rejected a U.S. plan for bringing peace to Lebanon two weeks ago, Syrian President Hafez Assad rejected a French proposal for installing a United Nations buffer force between the warring sides. "It is not logical that a buffer should be established between troublemakers and mutineers on the one hand and the legitimate forces on the other," snapped Assad, whose troops in Lebanon are nominally under Sarkis' command...