Word: halt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Richard Austin, chairman of the Coalition of Appalachian Energy Consumers, says he believes the group's resolution calling on the American Electric Company to halt its investment in nuclear power will be more effective in educating the public on the dangers of nuclear power than in immediately eliminating the use of nuclear energy...
...that man. His movie's helter-skelter tone swivels irrationally and usually heads straight for a dead end. Mad scenes, broad comic bits and mournful monologues are so indiscriminately mixed that the audience often does not know how to respond. At one point the movie comes to a halt so that we can go on a supposedly comic helicopter ride. There are also pointless interludes in which the hero visits his humorless grandfather (Lee Strasberg) at an old-age home; these scenes swing wildly between sentimental clichés and tasteless jokes about senility...
OVER HALF THE medical research going on in Harvard-affiliated laboratories and hospitals may soon grind to a halt for lack of a dumping site for the low-level radioactive wastes it produces. Recently, Gov. Dixie Lee Ray shut down the University's only outlet for waste disposal. Tuesday, she met with officials of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and has now announced that she will not even consider reopening the site until...
...abort the hopeful prospects by raising last-minute doubts as to whether the cost of settlement need be paid. Stopping offensive military actions in Korea in 1951 when cease-fire talks started almost surely prolonged the talks; I would make the same argument about the Viet Nam bombing halt in 1968, though I held a different view at the time...
...longer do people starve by the millions or die of such blights as smallpox, syphilis or malaria. Medical care is available to everyone, and by a combination of propaganda, pay supplements, and free birth-control devices, China seems to be making some headway in its efforts to halt its ruinous population growth, by limiting couples to only two children...