Word: halt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...awaiting permission to emigrate. Since early December, harassment of would-be emigres has intensified and the number of Jews allowed to leave has dropped to a four-year low (TIME, Jan. 20). But Moscow-based diplomats, and Israeli Sovietologists, were hopeful that the U.S.S.R. would not entirely halt emigration. Said Israeli Analyst Alain Guiney: "While the cancellation has undoubtedly worsened the situation of Soviet Jews, it should not be forgotten that the Soviets are still interested in an economic agreement with the U.S., and they are aware that if they ring down the emigration gates altogether they will...
...stormed the building, and burned the American flag, Ambassador Rodger Davies, 53, and a Cypriot embassy employee were murdered by mysterious snipers who fired through the windows. Last week, another stone-hurling crowd of 5,000 marched on the building. Marine guards firing tear-gas shells were unable to halt the demonstrators. Nicosia police finally drove off the crowd, but not before a wing of the embassy had been set ablaze and offices ransacked...
Since most military projects are intimately involved with national security, can't they be excused from the requirements of environmental law? That was the question at issue last week when a federal judge in Washington, B.C., refused to issue an injunction to halt construction of a base vital to the Navy's $15 billion Trident submarine program. Judge George Hart's ruling set the stage for a February trial that will pit environmentalists and landowners against the Navy and a new type of "public interest" law firm...
...effects on wildlife, it completely overlooked the effects on people-the increase in local population and the need for new schools, sewers, roads and police. Says local Attorney Philip Best: "The Navy was looking at gnats and ignoring the elephants." Environmental ists moved for a temporary, pretrial injunction to halt construction...
...never failed to ring up an annual profit. Indeed, until recently it had been pursuing a headlong expansion program. But last week Chairman James G. Kendrick confirmed rumors that had been sweeping the industry for months: Grant's profits and progress had both come to a thudding halt. After a grim meeting with Grant's bankers at the chain's new Manhattan headquarters, Kendrick said that the company would report a loss of $175 million for the past year. In a massive retrenchment program, it would also shut down at least 126 of its 1,182 stores...