Word: halt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...grand jury indictment alleges that the reporters conspired with Keen to bribe the lieutenant. The ostensible purpose: to halt a police investigation of a burglary. The Star management and staff, and many others in Indianapolis, regard the charge as a spurious attempt to discredit the exposes. Pearcy is up for re-election this fall, and though the Star usually supports Republicans, it has attacked his record. "This is a trumped-up affair and the prosecutor knows it," says Managing Editor Robert Early. "It's nothing but goddamned hokum." Says Douglass R. Shortridge, president of the Indianapolis Bar Association...
...closed coal mines and truck terminals in the Charleston area and surrounding Kanawha County and in five neighboring counties, keeping 6,000 miners out of work. Beatings and shooting broke out on the picket lines. Construction on the Appalachian Power Co.'s massive new plant came to a halt. Protesters held mass meetings and disrupted public bus service in Charleston, and at the height of the furor a quarter of Kanawha County schoolchildren stayed out of their classrooms. What triggered the turmoil in West Virginia was not the usual labor dispute, but subject matter and language in public school...
...still studying whether the company should get a permanent subsidy. If Pan Am now takes painful cost-cutting steps, particularly by eliminating some lightly traveled routes to Latin America, Africa and Asia, its creditors may be disposed to reduce the $300 million asset limit below which credit would halt. According to Brinegar, the Administration will ask the creditors to be lenient with...
...would be the simplest solution. Ford seemed unlikely to negate the deal willingly, but many lawyers doubt its legality and expect it to be challenged in the courts. Jaworski would be in the best position to mount such a challenge. Indeed, at his request, the White House decided to halt the transfer of the tapes and documents to Nixon at least temporarily. But if the agreement stands, other means must be found to pry loose what still needs to be known...
...fans. He had promised free beer in the event of a successful landing and, when none was served, some of the crowd cursed him. The next morning, when Knievel was about to be whisked away to the airport to go back to Butte, his car came to a screeching halt. Someone had let the air out of his two rear tires...