Word: halt
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...Laborers at Lisnave, Europe's largest dry dock, have reduced work hours so much that 50% has been added to the lay-up time for ships. The nationalization of all the country's banks, insurance companies and half of its industries has brought foreign investment to a halt, even though foreign assets have been exempted. Half a dozen U.S. firms have closed up shop since the revolution began; Otis Elevator Co., for example, simply abandoned its premises to the workers. The G.N.P., which grew at an average rate of 6.2% in the 1960s and increased...
Resisting Pressure. Among Israelis there is a difference of opinion about the value of the passes and the electronic monitors there. Some experts believe that other mountain peaks in the Sinai would serve just as well as monitoring stations, and Israel could successfully halt an Egyptian attack even if it had to give up the passes. But the Israeli General Staff wants to keep the passes. Guiding newsmen on a tour of Giddi and Mitla last week, Colonel Simcha Maoz of the General Staff pointed out that any Egyptian armor allowed through the passes could outflank the mammoth Israeli base...
...Henry Ford II has called for creation of a highly visible and vocal federal planning body?underscoring Nobel Laureate Leontief's prediction that the U.S. will adopt planning "not because some wild radicals demand it but because businessmen will demand it to keep the system from sputtering to a halt." Ford's idea is that a planning organization should examine "cost-effectiveness and set timetables. It should take a look at population growth; usages of raw materials and their
...Reports from the Angolan capital of Luanda last week spoke of "relative calm"-meaning only scattered shooting in the city's muceques (slums) and perhaps a dozen deaths in the capital. An estimated 1,200 people have been killed in fighting since last January. In an effort to halt the bloodshed, Portuguese troops swept through the muceques and found an enormous hoard of arms, including mortars, machine guns, mines and homemade bombs. Two weeks ago, leaders of the territory's three warring liberation groups met and agreed that civilians should be disarmed, but the task seems impossible...
Popping a pop-rock cassette into the tape deck, Elton props his feet next to the television and watches the Bond Street shoppers through the tinted windows of his Rolls-Royce Phantom. "Turn here," he instructs the chauffeur, and as the burnished ark glides to a halt, Elton hikes his high-waisted green slacks and prepares to enter Cartier...