Word: halt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sleek Mercedes sports coupé. The perks for the Polish elite include special schools for their children and access to luxurious vacation camps and ski resorts. Traffic literally stops for East Germany's new class; at the approach of the imported Volvo limousines carrying the party's top brass, police halt all other movement on the streets...
Rudman Ham, an official from the affiliate Children's Hospital, said the new law removes the risk that the state might permanently halt Children's Hospital's plans for building a cystic fibrosis research facility. He added the bill also eliminates the possibility the project will lose funds as a result of the time delay--up to three years--required to obtain a Certificate of Need...
...Tiffany Mining Co. in Hocking County, Ohio, a caravan of 50 trucks and cars pulled to a halt one day last week. More than 100 striking coal miners clambered out, set fire to a nonunion coal truck and an office trailer, then swept on. In Lawrence County they overturned a pickup truck; in Jackson County they did $13,000 worth of damage to one mine's scales. In Baldwin, Ill., another band of strikers delayed a train carrying coal to the state power company by stacking and burning railroad ties on the tracks leading into the utility...
...intend for the present to return to any meetings of the Israeli-Egyptian Political Committee, which he had broken off last month. Worried U.S. officials delayed Sadat's departure from Camp David by an hour, while they argued that such an announcement would bring to a halt whatever peace momentum remained...
When Egyptian President Anwar Sadat flew to Washington last week, he left behind him a peace process that had ground very nearly to a halt. As one Egyptian official put it, "The two sides have gone as far as they can in bilateral negotiations. The time has come for the U.S. to step in and break the logjam...