Word: halt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Soviet pullback from the capital began about three weeks ago, even as Yuli Vorontsov, the Soviet Ambassador to Afghanistan and a Deputy Foreign Minister, threatened that Moscow would halt the withdrawal if the mujahedin leadership did not accept some participation by Najibullah's People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (P.D.P.A.) in a shura, or council of leaders, that would choose a new government. The mujahedin, smelling a bluff, would not budge, and the pullout from Kabul continued...
...long, long time. She is largely responsible for the success of the show, many of her ideas are mainstays, and she is one of the most important people in my life, ever. I won't give you the gory details, but it seems to have come to a halt...
...rage focused on the impersonal machinery of a military adventure that the post-World War II generation did not support and that few seemed capable of affecting. Rage also targeted an inert political system, manned by the middle-aged, that ringed its conventions with police, ignored the clamor to halt the war, and failed to heed the smoke rising from the ghettoes. In France, anger was directed first at a sclerotic university system, then at the Fifth Republic, which condoned it, then at the Republic's architect, De Gaulle. Orthodox Communist parties were spurned in favor of Che Guevara...
...several obstacles still block Harvard's path. Members of Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) want to use the site for a library or office building, and the city is reviewing a zoning proposal that would halt the project...
...also dealt a blow to some major schools of thought. Monetarists like Nobel laureate Milton Friedman, who believe that slow and steady growth of the money supply is the key to prosperity, expected inflation to shoot up when the Federal Reserve suddenly pumped cash into the economy to halt the recession of 1981-82. But inflation failed to ignite because the slump was so deep that it left the economy with plenty of room to grow without pushing up prices...