Word: halt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...samba have been joined lately by stock-market speculation. Since May 1987 the bourse in Rio de Janeiro has jumped almost 400%. Lebanese immigrant Naji Robert Nahas, who alone accounted for nearly half of the market's trades in recent weeks, brought Brazil's bulls to a halt last week after several brokerage houses discovered that $31 million of his checks had bounced on them. To avoid a bearish stampede, the Rio and Sao Paulo markets were forced to close last Monday. When trading resumed the next day, the benchmark I.B.V. index plunged 9% and ended the week down...
...thing; finding the road toward political and economic recovery quite another. In Beijing, much of the public transportation system has been destroyed or damaged. Losses to the national economy are estimated in the hundreds of millions of dollars. Japan, China's largest foreign-aid donor, has announced a halt in negotiations for a $120 million loan for an oil project. The U.S. and Britain have suspended all public and private arms sales to China for the foreseeable future: the P.L.A. alone needs to replace more than 300 vehicles smashed or burned in the taking of the square...
CAPTION: GRINDING TO A HALT...
...council's activist agenda seemed to progress more slowly in the second semester, it ground to a complete halt when, three weeks before the end of the year, a seemingly innocent proposal shook the campus and all but paralyzed the council for the rest of the year...
...government recently pledged to stop importing luxury cars and halt the annual migration of Beijing officials to the beachside resort of Beidaihe to escape the sweltering summer. On the way to his favorite barber, Vice Premier Tian Jiyun was seen being driven in a Toyota sedan instead of his beloved Mercedes-Benz. Unfortunately for the capital's elite, such modest belt tightening is not likely to impress the student protesters...