Word: halt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...complaints have had political impact. The three nonsocialist opposition parties (Liberal, Center and Moderate) have pledged to halt the trend toward greater government centralization and slow the growth of the welfare state; the nonsocialist bloc has gained considerable strength. Since the 1973 election that left the Social Democrats with only 156 of Parliament's 350 seats, they have had to govern as a minority, relying on the support of 19 Communist votes and occasional deals with other opposition Deputies in order to enact key legislation. According to the latest polls, the Social Democrats' support is down...
Half-way through last week's four-hour debate, Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci proposed that there be a two-year halt within the city on such experiments...
...loomed large in the historical events at Salem. And as in most controversial issues right up to today, they could be found on all sides. The chief justice and prosecutor of the witch trials was William Stoughton (A.B. 1650), whose bloodthirstiness led him, when Governor Phips eventually ordered a halt, to try to hurry three more people up the hangman's steps. Allied with him was Judge Samuel Sewall (A.B. 1671), who five years later publicly confessed his error. Among the witch-hunting clergymen the most active was John Hale...
...additional funds and has contracted for 60,000 feet of hollowed pine logs to be converted into more than 10 miles of pipes to service 67 streets and alleys. But can Colles get the job finished? As of last week, work had come to a virtual halt, for many laborers are fleeing the city, and those who remain are needed in the construction of fortifications...
...reserves have dropped from more than $102 million in November to less than $38 million. Wealthy Jamaicans have illicitly exported perhaps $200 million abroad; some of the currency has been smuggled out in fake cigarettes, fortune cookies and pork carcasses. Says one member of an intelligence force trying to halt the financial outflow: "It has replaced the smuggling of ganja (marijuana) to Grand Cayman, Miami and Canada...