Word: halt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...prenatal and childhood diagnostic tests for retinoblastoma. The next step, he says, will be to find and synthesize the protein ordered by the genes, the one that prevents wild cell proliferation. This still unknown protein might one day be administered to those lacking the gene and could act to halt the disease. Eventually, advances in gene therapy might even lead to a cure, perhaps through the use of bioengineered viruses that would ferry copies of the healthy gene to the cells of a retinoblastoma victim...
...Force, taxied past the familiar F-15s and AWACS surveillance planes stationed on the vast NATO base at Keflavik. Others, boasting the red star of the Soviet Union, looked jarringly out of place. Red and blue alike, the cargo planes thudded down on the asphalt and roared to a halt on Keflavik's 10,000-ft. runway, disgorging advance teams, communications specialists, security agents, photocopiers, computers, television cameras and cables for this weekend's minisummit 32 miles away in the capital city of Reykjavik (pronounced Rake-yah-veek...
...apart from most of PBS's good gray fare, and he makes telling points about his homeland's cultural predicament. Africa today, he says, is dependent on the West in ways it cannot control: without the English and French languages, | public business in most countries would come to a halt. Western moral standards have often seemed as impenetrable to Africans as theirs have to us. "Early European missionaries," Mazrui notes, "found it easier to admit a slave owner to Communion than a member of a polygamous household." Meanwhile, Africa still has to import most of the manufactured goods made from...
...University is trying to halt publication of his book, Simpson said, because Harvard University Press plans to publish in May, 1987, the second volume of Ernest Samuels' "Bernard Berenson: The Making of a Legend." Samuels is Berenson's official biographer...
...protest did not end there. Believing that wider public involvement and protest is necessary to halt the U.S. policy, Liteky began a water-only fast on September 1, to dramatize the issue. He said he would not eat until "some significant signal of protest" is made by the public condemning the U.S. policy or if the government takes steps toward withdrawing support of the contras. He has been joined by three other vets and they have entitled their effort, "The Veterans Fast for Life...