Word: halt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...treated with aldrin, a highly effective pesticide. Both the manufacturer, Shell Chemical, and the Department of Agriculture consider the substance essential to control insect damage in the Midwest corn belt. Recently, after a year of still-unfinished hearings, the Environmental Protection Agency announced that it plans to order a halt in the production of aldrin and a related Shell pesticide, dieldrin. Reason: the chemicals present "extremely high cancer risk...
...left analysts wondering: If the removal of un certainty about who will be in the White House could not ignite a lasting rally, what could? The answer: nothing immediately foreseeable. The market's drop reflects an unsentimental appreciation of the fact that the change in Administrations cannot quickly halt inflation. Referring to this summer's recently ended Midwest drought, which is sending up food prices, one broker quips: "What is he [President Ford] expected to do? Chew out the Lord for not providing rain?" Meanwhile, high interest rates continue to draw money out of stocks into such investments...
...borrowed bike and threads his way through traffic more easily than he picks his way through reporters' questions. To show off his new skills, Ron even gave a demonstration to a posse of reporters on a back road, only to run out of gas and | wheeze to a halt under the unblinking gaze of a herd of Herefords. Said one wry observer: "After Evel Knievel has jumped the Grand Canyon, Ron is going to top his act-he's going to try to jump the credibility...
...stud failure. Then her Meadow Stable's most likely comers, Capital Asset and Capito failed to win a stake. Now it turns out even Mrs. Tweedy's husband Jack finished up the track. "We were married for 25 years and things just ground to a halt," said Penny last week from Long Island about her impending divorce from Jack, an executive V.P. of the California-based Oil Shale Corp. A major problem occurred when he moved to Los Angeles. Obviously aware that East Coast fillies have not done well In the West, Penny explained, "I realized...
...then-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew berated the head of the Legal Service Program over a suit brought by a local agency against the city of Camden, N.J., to halt construction work on a number of urban renewal projects. Agnew criticized the right of poor people to use OEO-paid lawyers to sue elected officials...