Word: halt
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...giants of Southern journalism have largely passed from the scene, but the newspapers of the South are probably better than ever. More and more Dixie dailies are starting to cover national news seriously, commit money and staff to investigative reporting and pay their talent well enough to halt its traditional northward migration. Among prominent defectors: Tom Wicker and Clifton Daniel of the New York Times, David Brinkley of NBC, Dan Rather of CBS. Five Southern newspapers best exemplify the new stirring in Southern journalism. They are, in alphabetical order...
...rules five months ago (TIME, March 1). When Jimmy Carter appeared to talk about the need to reform the appointment of regulatory-agency officials, A.B.A. members were caught somewhat unprepared: the organization has yet to adopt broad proposals in that critical area. Indeed the at-least-temporary halt in activism threatens to leave the bar in the position of having judges and other officials decide on changes that affect the legal profession without much guidance from the lawyers themselves...
Last year Rockefeller and his management staff set up a profitability analysis project to halt the bank's downward slide. Consequently, the Chase has been moving faster into the merchant banking field abroad. Loan standards have been tightened. The Chase has closed six of its 265 branches because they were unprofitable, and as many as 30 more might be shut down. In an effort to trim its paperwork problems, the bank has sold off its payroll processing and stock-transfer departments to smaller data-processing firms. As a result, in a move that one veteran officer describes...
That huckstering innovation is part of a drive by the evening News to halt its steady loss of readers to the morning Free Press (daily circulation up 22% in ten years to 622,339, only 5,122 behind the News). Last month the News roused its reporters' wrath with an internal memo announcing that the "product" would henceforth stress stories about "Detroit and its horrors that are discussed at suburban cocktail parties." The subscription drive has met with similar hostility. Complained a Newspaper Guild officer: "That's just not our role. The obvious answer to the circulation problem...
...ships for the U.S. Navy under present contract conditions. Litton Industries, whose Pascagoula, Miss., shipyard is building radically new generations of gas-turbine-powered destroyers and big helicopter assault ships, has petitioned a federal court in Los Angeles for a ruling that in effect would permit the company to halt construction of the assault ships on Aug. 1. Similarly, the giant Newport News shipyard, a subsidiary of Tenneco, has asked a federal court for permission to stop work on a guided-missile cruiser. On its own, the Newport News yard, which has been building Navy ships since 1897, has suspended...