Word: halt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...performance on its own terms. Near the end of the necessarily long work, he blasts the FBI for not performing its chartered tasks well. Ungar claims that the bureau has done little to combat organized crime. He also notes how the FBI has failed to halt growing white collar crime. The Agency remains no threat to embezzlers, government swindlers, and stock manipulators. And then, in what is probably the most searing blow for the bureau, Ungar attacks the organization for failing to thwart increasing domestic terrorism. He describes an intelligence organization that is curiously incapable of penetrating the radical underground...
However, a contract had never been signed, and Daniel Steiner '54, general counsel to the University, put a halt to opening day. The club had not "provided the financial security" considered desirable by the University, Steiner said yesterday...
...quick to hail the decision as a landmark in the long fight to get the suburbs to share in solving the problems of the cities they surround. Margaret Bush Wilson, chairman of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, called the finding "historic, bold and necessary to halt the constitutional movement in this country toward apartheid. " But other leaders of minorities, noting the extremely limited nature of the precedent and knowing the long court battles that almost certainly lay ahead, were much more guarded. "I'm pleased, but I'm not elated," said Dr. Robert Weaver...
...CENTER SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC PARTY, unabashedly on the right, is expected to improve considerably on its 8% tally last year, if only because it will be fielding more candidates; in the 1975 balloting, ultraleftists intimidated many C.D.S. candidates into withdrawing from the campaign. The party calls for a halt to nationalization, cutbacks in imports, and new agrarian reforms...
...constitute, by 1776, a conventional method of political action. The Boston Tea Party was hardly an isolated case: the mob also rioted to keep food from being shipped out of the colony during lean times, to prevent men from being impressed into the British navy, and to halt the collection of unpopular customs duties. The men who made up these mobs were, as likely as not, also the men to be found sitting in New England town meetings and on local juries...