Word: halt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Council's two other resolutions on Armenia urged the Soviet government to halt the reportedly widespread violence towards Armenians...
Duehay also praised Harvard's Office of Government and Community Affairs, which yesterday donated $1000 to the relief fund, Duehay said. But he said that Harvard's upcoming vacation would probably bring a halt to Harvard's involvement for several weeks...
...ceased to be the "little town" described in the popular carol. It is instead a city whose 35,000 residents have traditionally been joined by so many pilgrims and tourists that there is often no room in the inns. But the boom and bustle came to a rather sudden halt in December 1987, when the intifadeh arose among the Arabs in Israel's occupied territories. Last Christmas only 5,000 visitors -- half the normal turnout -- attended Bethlehem's elaborate holiday observance. In the year since then, an estimated 300 Palestinian Arabs have been killed in the uprising, eleven...
...control, and is copied and sent to numerous relatives and friends of the family. Each of these has some comment to make on the letter that the boy feels was meant only for him. Uncertain how this development occurred, the boy watches passively, unhappy but somehow unable to halt the flow of events...
...California, Massachusetts legislators approved a reform bill that will slice 16% off the state's tightly controlled auto rates in 1989. Aimed at easing a 27% jump in premiums over the past two years, the measure includes several cost-saving features to placate insurers. Yet such provisions could not halt a continuing exodus that has seen six major firms abandon the state since 1986. Allstate joined their ranks last week, when the Sears subsidiary said it would stop selling policies in Massachusetts to escape the state's stringent regulations...