Word: halt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lira jitters were set off by last January's long Italian political crisis. As the country drifted for 35 days without a government, panicky Italians smuggled lire into Switzerland, often lugging them there by the suitcase. To halt the losses, the Italian Treasury in January closed the official foreign-exchange market. Shortly before it reopened
...reaction," Prime Minister Michael Manley told TIME Correspondent David DeVoss, who went to Jamaica to examine the reggae phenomenon. Manley won the votes of the poor by making the reggae song Better Must Come his campaign anthem. Says he: "I listen attentively. At a time when the Establishment cries halt, these songs provide a wonderful counterweight...
...Soviets believe in communism very sincerely. have here," he observes, adding that most Soviets believe in communism very sincerely. As proof, he cites the anecdote about a Soviet child who tries to cross a busy Moscow street in the wrong place. A truck driver grinds his cab to a halt in the middle of the road, and chastises the child for blocking the progress of communism...
...Florida, so dismaying Reagan that he sharply attacked Ford for the first time. At a news conference in Orlando, the Californian said he was not questioning Ford's "decency, honor and patriotism." But, Reagan charged, "Gerald Ford . . . has shown neither the vision nor the leadership necessary to halt and reverse the diplomatic and military decline of the U.S." A reporter asked Reagan if he were violating his promise to abide by the G.O.P.'s "Eleventh Commandment" -thou shalt not smite thy fellow Republican. No, Reagan replied lamely, he was not hitting Ford personally, only his Administration...
...judicial relations. A federal habeas petition can be brought only after pursuing an appeal up through the top state court. Complains Northwestern Law Professor Fred Inbau: "The right of one federal judge to overrule five or seven state supreme court justices is just nonsensical. We have to call a halt to it." At last week's arguments before the Supreme Court, one lawyer for Convict Rice tried to counter that view; he argued that the "state courts' primary allegiance is to guarantee enforcement of the state's criminal law, while the federal courts' is to preserve...