Word: halt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...family kept during the first few rainy months there, when they were living in a sodden tent. Silly phrases, children's art work and Harriet's more sophisticated doodles interrupted the more serious accounts of battles with county officials and with the coast guard. Local bureaucrats had tried to halt construction in the valley, had subpoenaed the residents because they did not use electricity, had withdrawn permits because the group was building with recycled wood and had tried to arrest them without even looking at their blueprints for sanitary and ecological compost privy structures. But the warrants and injunctions...
...Harvard baseball team's explosive ways came to a grinding temporary halt yesterday, as the Columbia Lions combined timely hitting and defense with excellent pitching to edge the Crimson 3-1 at Soldiers Field...
...domestic affairs, Carter's major concern is that his economic-stimulus package, including the $50 tax rebate, pass the Senate. (It has already passed the House.) A number of Senators, chafing at his decision to halt, at least temporarily, a long list of water-control -many would say "pork barrel" -projects, are dragging their feet on the Administration's economic proposals. Carter and Vice President Walter Mondale have begun making personal appeals to recalcitrant Senators for their support. In return, the President has agreed to reconsider some of the water-control projects on which substantial work has been...
Egged on by Wald and his biologist wife, Ruth Hubbard, Cambridge's Mayor Alfred Velluci used the escalating DNA furor to badger his old foe, Harvard. He convened the city council in an effort to halt DNA research at the school. Said Velluci: "Something could crawl out of the laboratory, such as a Frankenstein." At the council's request, Harvard and M.I.T. agreed to a moratorium on P-3 research while an eight-member citizens' review board studied the issue. In February, the council overrode Velluci and passed an ordinance permitting recombinant DNA work to be resumed...
...Face. As expected, Jimmy Carter last week came down hard on the anti-plutonium side. Citing the "serious risk," he said he would seek to halt the development of plutonium as a fuel source. (It can be manufactured only under federal license.) A prototype breeder to be built on the Clinch River in Oak Ridge, Tenn., will be restricted to research employing other fuels, like thorium, which is not used in weapons. Carter will block the federal funds needed to complete a privately owned plant in Barnwell, S.C., designed to reprocess used uranium fuel into plutonium. He will also call...