Word: halt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...RECESSION. The pressure on Ford to move forcefully to halt the worsening recession is growing. In fact, Ford's policymakers are in the process of charting a course toward more fiscal ease. Neither Treasury Secretary William Simon, Chief Economic Adviser Alan Greenspan nor Federal Reserve Chairman Burns wants to give up on vigorously fighting runaway prices. In their view, soaring costs are a key factor in the business downturn because they force consumers to put off purchases of everything from autos to airline tickets. Even so, Simon and Greenspan have said that a tax cut might be appropriate...
...those who find the concept of an infinitely expanding or "open" universe to be philosophically unsatisfactory. "Closed universe" scientists have long contended that if there was enough matter in or between the galaxies, there would be enough mutual gravitational attraction to gradually slow their outward flight. The expansion would halt, and all the parts of the universe would begin to fall inward, eventually crushing together again in a final cataclysm. Some closed universe theorists hold out the possibility that matter would in effect rebound from the crunch in another big bang and that the universe would continue to oscillate, expanding...
Even before South Boston High was closed down, the tension and acrimony in the classrooms had virtually brought learning to a halt. But what has generally been overlooked in the racial turmoil is that even in the best of times, the school has never given its students a particularly good education...
Other states anxious to halt the spread of litter are clearly impressed. California, for instance, may well pass its own law next year. As the legislation is now shaping up, the state will bor row more heavily from Washington than Oregon (but will nonetheless ban pull-tabs on cans as a safety hazard). Though industry opposition is expected, a state-sponsored study strongly suggests that most Californians-and probably most other Americans as well-are ready to accept curbs on the throw-away habit that blights the land...
...Hello out there-Earth, can you read us?" Silence. There may not be anyone to receive a return message from Messier 13 unless something is done to halt the present ecological holocaust...