Word: halt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci, exasperated after hours of debate, quickly brought the meeting to a halt by saying "What are we talking about? What are we doing here? We don't have to approve a $300,000 appropriation. All we have to do is approve a resolution encouraging the school committee to investigate this further...
...only marginal influence on the energy and Social Security reform programs, two of the most important projects affecting the economy since the Inauguration. While Schultze has been urging tax cuts, those two programs will hit the economy with a double whammy of multibillion-dollar tax hikes that may halt growth. Officials concede the economic impact of some programs was not sufficiently taken into account but add that only the President can weigh the social as well as economic factors in a decision...
...Daniel Patrick Moynihan, and social critics such as Commentary editor Norman Podheretz have nurtured and refined the social theory of "ethnic pluralism," an intellectual construct which--along with its pernicious step-child, "reverse discrimination"--they now trot out to the ideological front lines in their wide-ranging battle to halt the progressive advances of the'60s: affirmative action programs for women and minorities and increased federal spending for the poor and disadvantaged...
...military governments that replaced countries were thrown into civil wars; some were badly mismanaged by incompetent and ruthless military governments. This is the worst period Africa has ever experienced. One wonders whether the wheels of destruction will ever come to a halt...
...zoned for some commercial businesses, but whatever the zoning regulations are in the city, all academic institutions are not required to conform to the rules (courtesy of the 1975 state Dover Amendment). The last time Cambridge successfully confronted Harvard was in 1975, when Graham led her infamous crusade to halt construction of the Kennedy Library complex on the MBTA yards. City Councilor David Clem recalls this instance as the first time Harvard really lost a fight, but the issue was more complicated. The emotional impact of placing the memorial to the late John F. Kennedy in an unfriendly environment finally...