Word: halt
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Although Ferguson's tenure may not come up at the Corporation meeting tomorrow, "normal procedures" would not halt his approval by that body, George Putnam '43, treasurer of the College, said yesterday...
...must confront: How much latitude to allow the CIA in conducting covert operations abroad? At issue was the revelation of secret payments to Jordan's King Hussein that, according to the Washington Post, began in 1957 and amounted to "millions of dollars." Carter acted decisively, ordering an immediate halt to the CIA'S largess to the King...
Devalued Diploma. The result: in the past year, "minimal competency testing" has become the hottest new catch phrase in public education. Described by educators as a "man on the street" effort to halt the devaluation of a high school diploma, minimal competency requires students to pass proficiency exams, in addition to course work, in order to graduate. So far, six states -California, Florida, Maryland, New Jersey, Virginia and Washington-have enacted minimal competency laws. Florida has also outlawed traditional "social passing," by which illiterate students eventually graduated after merely attending school enough years. In ten more states, boards of education...
Durbin said he hopes increased government aid to educational institutions will halt the current inflationary trend...
Huntington maintains that he turned against the Vietnam War, in the late '60s and urged 1968 Democratic Presidential candidate Hubert Humphrey to advocate a bombing halt. He cites his article, "Bases of Accommodation," published in the July 1968 issue of Foreign Affairs, as evidence of his changed views. But in that article Huntington discounted the importance of social reform and recommended an expansion of the South Vietnamese government's "power structure" as a means of averting revolution. Huntington also advocated the use of "mechanical and conventional power"--bombing--in rural areas threatened by the National Liberation Front to force...